Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A FAMILY FAVORITE, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE


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A FAMILY FAVORITE, by                    
First Line: Here lies a cat of local fame
Last Line: All pure and beautiful.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Comedy; Death; Epitaphs; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas


HERE lies a cat of local fame
Whose work (or, rather, play) is done;
His stature great; age six; his name,
"George Washington."

He died not like that cat of Gray,
Drowned in a tub; his death was drier:
He perished in a modern way,
Caught on a wire.

We miss thee, dear old household pet;
But yet no doubt thy little soul,
Thy tiny star, has only set
Beyond our narrower human ken,
To rise as part of Nature's whole
Elsewhere again:

To lead anew midst trees or flowers,
Here on the land or in the sea,
Thy little life to sweeten ours;
To Nature's laws still dutiful,
Changed into something sure to be
All pure and beautiful.





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