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CAT CALLS, SELECTION by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU

First Line: AT NIGHT ALL CATS ARE GRAY
Last Line: AT WHOM PELION RECOILS.
Subject(s): ANIMALS; CATS; TERROR;
@3At night all cats are gray@1
Terror of Troglodytès o'er
The Turkish tapestries
And of all the rats of your
Batrachomyomachys,

Homer: Meridarpax,
Thief of petty spoils.
Troxartes and Psycarpax
At whom Pelion recoils.



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