The Royal I.d.P. Essploring Fundation

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       Cat


The fat cat on the mat
    may seem to dream
of nice mice that suffice
    for him, or cream;
but he free, maybe,
    walks in thought
unbowed, proud, where loud
    roared and fought
his kin, lean and slim,
    or deep in den
in the East feasted on beasts
    and tender men.
The giant lion with iron
    claw in paw,
and huge ruthless tooth
    in gory jaw;
the pard dark-starred,
    fleet upon feet,
that oft soft from aloft
    leaps upon his meat
where woods loom in gloom --
    far now they be,
    fierce and free,
    and tamed is he;
but fat cat on the mat
    kept as a pet
    he does not forget.