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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354479" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Les Chats (Cats)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Les amoureux fervents et les savants austères<br>Aiment également, dans leur mûre saison,<br>Les chats puissants et doux, orgueil de la maison,<br>Qui comme eux sont frileux et comme eux sédentaires.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Amis de la science et de la volupté<br>Ils cherchent le silence et l'horreur des ténèbres;<br>L'Erèbe les eût pris pour ses coursiers funèbres,<br>S'ils pouvaient au servage incliner leur fierté.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ils prennent en songeant les nobles attitudes<br>Des grands sphinx allongés au fond des solitudes,<br>Qui semblent s'endormir dans un rêve sans fin;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leurs reins féconds sont pleins d'étincelles magiques,<br>Et des parcelles d'or, ainsi qu'un sable fin,<br>Etoilent vaguement leurs prunelles mystiques.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cats</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Both ardent lovers and austere scholars <br>Love in their mature years <br>The strong and gentle cats, pride of the house, <br>Who like them are sedentary and sensitive to cold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Friends of learning and sensual pleasure, <br>They seek the silence and the horror of darkness; <br>Erebus would have used them as his gloomy steeds: <br>If their pride could let them stoop to bondage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When they dream, they assume the noble attitudes <br>Of the mighty sphinxes stretched out in solitude, <br>Who seem to fall into a sleep of endless dreams;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their fertile loins are full of magic sparks, <br>And particles of gold, like fine grains of sand, <br>Spangle dimly their mystic eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by William Aggeler</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cats </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sages austere and fervent lovers both, <br>In their ripe season, cherish cats, the pride <br>Of hearths, strong, mild, and to themselves allied <br>In chilly stealth and sedentary sloth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Friends both to lust and learning, they frequent <br>Silence, and love the horror darkness breeds. <br>Erebus would have chosen them for steeds <br>To hearses, could their pride to it have bent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dreaming, the noble postures they assume <br>Of sphinxes stretching out into the gloom <br>That seems to swoon into an endless trance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their fertile flanks are full of sparks that tingle, <br>And particles of gold, like grains of shingle, <br>Vaguely be-star their pupils as they glance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Roy Campbell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cats</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No one but indefatigable lovers and old <br>Chilly philosophers can understand the true <br>Charm of these animals serene and potent, who <br>Likewise are sedentary and suffer from the cold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are the friends of learning and of sexual bliss; <br>Silence they love, and darkness, where temptation breeds. <br>Erebus would have made them his funereal steeds, <br>Save that their proud free nature would not stoop to this.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity <br>In noble attitudes upon the desert sand, <br>They gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their fecund loins give forth electric flashes, and <br>Thousands of golden particles drift ceaselessly, <br>Like galaxies of stars, in their mysterious eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by George Dillon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cats</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fevered lovers and austere thinkers<br>Love equally, in their ripe season<br>Cats powerful and gentle, pride of the house<br>Like them they feel the cold, like them are sedentary </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Friends of science and sensuality<br>They seek the silence and the horror of the shadows<br>Erebus had taken them for its funeral coursers<br>Could they to servitude incline their pride. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dreaming, they take on noble postures<br>Great sphinxes stretched out in the depths of emptiness<br>Seeming to fall asleep into an endless dream. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their fertile loins are full of magic sparks<br>And nuggets of gold like fine sand<br>Vaguely bestar their mystic pupils.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Translated by Anonymous</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Baudelaire">Charles Baudelaire</a><div class=q>
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Aiment également, dans leur mûre saison,
Les chats puissants et doux, orgueil de la maison,
Qui comme eux sont frileux et comme eux sédentaires.

Amis de la science et de la volupté
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