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Aug. 28th, 2017 at 6:29 AM
Cat! who hast pass'd thy grand climacteric,
How many mice and rats hast in thy days
Destroy'd? - How many tit bits stolen? Gaze
With those bright languid segments green, and prick
Those velvet ears - but pr'ythee do not stick
Thy latent talons in me - and upraise
Thy gentle mew - and tell me all thy frays
Of fish and mice, and rats and tender chick.
Nay, look not down, nor lick thy dainty wrists -
For all the wheezy asthma, - and for all
Thy tail's tip is nick'd off - and though the fists
Of many a maid have given thee many a maul,
Still is that fur as soft as when the lists
In youth thou enter'dst on glass bottled wall.
Posthumous and fugitive Poems
[Read the biographical context.]
John Keats
Comments
I'd sack a maid who hit my cat quicker than Countesss Gertrude of Gormenghast (https://youtu.be/0vPKIdFXjCM?list=PLF74D11BBB2D2E26B) (at 5:30 on that video.)
And I agree, I'd not keep such a maid either!