Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NEVER GET OUT!, by JOHN GALSWORTHY


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First Line: I knew a little serval cat
Last Line: Never get out!...
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Animals; Cats


I KNEW a little Serval cat --
Never get out!
Would pad all day from this to that --
Never get out!
From bar to bar she'd turn and turn,
And in her eyes a fire would burn --
(From her zoology we learn!)
Never get out!

But if by hap a ray of sun
Came shining in her cage, she'd run
And sit upon her haunches where
Into the open she could stare,
And with the free that sunlight share --
Never get out!

That catling's jungle heart forlorn
Will die as wild as it was born...
If I could cage the human race
Awhile like her, in prisoned space,
And teach them what it is to face --
Never get out!...





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