Front cover of The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten
The
Rubáiyát
of a
Persian Kitten
By
Oliver Herford
Decorative crest
New York · Charles Scribner’s Sons
Mcmvi
Copyright, 1904, by
Oliver Herford
The De Vinne Press.
The Rubáiyát of a
Persian Kitten
Wake! for the Golden Cat has put to flight
The Mouse of Darkness with his Paw of Light:
Which means, in Plain and simple every-day
Unoriental Speech—The Dawn is bright.
The sun rises with the face of a kitten
They say the Early Bird the Worm shall taste.
Then rise, O Kitten! Wherefore, sleeping, waste
The Fruits of Virtue? Quick! the Early Bird
Will soon be on the Flutter—O make haste!
A kitten about to pounce on a bird
The Early Bird has gone, and with him ta’en
The Early Worm—Alas! the Moral’s plain,
O Senseless Worm! Thus, thus we are repaid
For Early Rising—I shall doze again.
The kitten watches the bird fly away
The Mouse makes merry ’mid the Larder Shelves,
The Bird for Dinner in the Garden delves.
I often wonder what the creatures eat
One half so toothsome as they are Themselves.
A kitten watches a mouse on a shelf
And that Inverted Bowl of Skyblue Delf
That helpless lies upon the Pantry Shelf—
Lift not your eyes to It for help, for It
Is q                        
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