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The Cat and the Moon
| The cat went here and there | | And the moon spun round like a top, | | And the nearest kin of the moon, | | The
creeping cat, looked up. | | Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon, | | For, wander and wail as he would, | | The
pure cold light in the sky | | Troubled his animal blood. | | Minnaloushe runs in the grass | | Lifting his delicate
feet. | | Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance? | | When two close kindred meet, | | What better than call
a dance? | | Maybe the moon may learn, | | Tired of that courtly fashion, | | A new dance turn. | | Minnaloushe
creeps through the grass | | From moonlit place to place, | | The sacred moon overhead | | Has taken a new
phase. | | Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils | | Will pass from change to change, | | And that from round to
crescent, | | From crescent to round they range? | | Minnaloushe creeps through the grass | | Alone, important
and wise, | | And lifts to the changing moon | | His changing eyes. |
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By PanEris
using Melati.
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