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!... | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BLUEBIRD by EMILY DICKINSON THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE: CANTO 1 by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) A FINE DAY ON LOUGH SWILLY by WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1824-1911) THE WELFORD WEDDING by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST ODE TO THE PAST by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN HINTS OF AN HISTORICAL PLAY TO BE CALLED WILLIAM RUFUS by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |