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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455622" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mistress Gurton's Cat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old MISTRESS GURTON had a Cat,<br>A Tabby, loveliest of the race,<br>Sleek as a doe, and tame, and fat<br>With velvet paws, and whisker'd face;<br>The Doves of VENUS not so fair,<br>Nor JUNO'S Peacocks half so grand<br>As MISTRESS GURTON'S Tabby rare,<br>The proudest of the purring band;<br>So dignified in all her paces--<br>She seem'd, a pupil of the Graces!<br>There never was a finer creature<br>In all the varying whims of Nature!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All liked Grimalkin, passing well!<br>Save MISTRESS GURTON, and, 'tis said,<br>She oft with furious ire would swell,<br>When, through neglect or hunger keen,<br>Puss, with a pilfer'd scrap, was seen,<br>Swearing beneath the pent-house shed:<br>For, like some fav'rites, she was bent<br>On all things, yet with none content;<br>And still, whate'er her place or diet,<br>She could not pick her bone, in quiet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes, new milk GRIMALKIN stole,<br>And sometimes--over-set the bowl!<br>For over eagerness will prove,<br>Oft times the bane of what we love;<br>And sometimes, to her neighbour's home,<br>GRIMALKIN, like a thief would roam,<br>Teaching poor Cats, of humbler kind,<br>For high example sways the mind!<br>Sometimes she paced the garden wall,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thick guarded by the shatter'd pane,<br>And lightly treading with disdain,<br>Fear'd not Ambition's certain fall!<br>Old China broke, or scratch'd her Dame<br>And brought domestic friends to shame!<br>And many a time this Cat was curst,<br>Of squalling, thieving things, the worst!<br>Wish'd Dead ! and menanc'd with a string,<br>For Cats of such scant Fame, deserv'd to swing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day, report, for ever busy,<br>Resolv'd to make Dame Gurton easy;<br>A Neighbour came, with solemn look,<br>And thus, the dismal tidings broke.<br>"Know you, that poor GRIMALKIN died<br>"Last night, upon the pent-house side?<br>"I heard her for assistance call;<br>"I heard her shrill and dying squall!<br>"I heard her, in reproachful tone,<br>"Pour, to the stars, her feeble groan!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Alone, I heard her piercing cries--<br>"With not a Friend to close her Eyes!"<br>"Poor Puss ! I vow it grieves me sore,<br>"Never to see thy beauties more!<br>"Never again to hear thee purr,<br>"To stroke thy back, of Zebra fur;<br>"To see thy emral'd eyes--so bright,<br>"Flashing around their lust'rous light<br>"Amid the solemn shades of night!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Methinks I see her pretty paws--<br>"As gracefully she paced along;<br>"I hear her voice, so shrill, among<br>"The chimney rows ! I see her claws,<br>"While, like a Tyger, she pursued<br>"Undauntedly the pilf'ring race;<br>"I see her lovely whisker'd face<br>"When she her nimble prey subdued!<br>"And then, how she would frisk, and play,<br>"And purr the Evening hours away:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Now stretch'd beside the social fire;<br>"Now on the sunny lawn, at noon,<br>"Watching the vagrant Birds that flew,<br>"Across the scene of varied hue,<br>"To peck the Fruit. Or when the Moon<br>"Stole o'er the hills, in silv'ry suit,<br>"How would she chaunt her lovelorn Tale<br>"Soft as the wild Eolian Lyre!<br>"'Till ev'ry brute, on hill, in dale,<br>"Listen'd with wonder mute!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"O! Cease!" exclaim'd DAME GURTON, straight,<br>"Has my poor Puss been torn away?<br>"Alas ! how cruel is my fate,<br>"How shall I pass the tedious day?<br>"Where can her mourning mistress find<br>"So sweet a Cat? so meek! so kind!<br>"So keen a mouser, such a beauty,<br>"So orderly, so fond, so true,<br>"That every gentle task of duty<br>"The dear, domestic creature knew!<br>"Hers, was the mildest tend'rest heart!<br>"She knew no little cattish art;<br>"Not cross, like fav'rite Cats , was she<br>"But seem'd the queen of Cats to be!<br>"I cannot live--since doom'd, alas ! to part<br>"From poor GRIMALKIN kind, the darling of my heart!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now DAME GURTON, bath'd in tears,<br>With a black top-knot vast, appears:<br>Some say that a black gown she wore,<br>As many oft have done before,<br>For Beings, valued less, I ween,<br>Than this, of Tabby Cats, the fav'rite Queen!<br>But lo ! soon after, one fair day,<br>Puss, who had only been a roving--<br>Across the pent-house took her way,<br>To see her Dame, so sad, and loving;<br>Eager to greet the mourning fair<br>She enter'd by a window, where<br>A China bowl of luscious cream<br>Was quiv'ring in the sunny beam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Puss, who was somewhat tired and dry,<br>And somewhat fond of bev'rage sweet;<br>Beholding such a tempting treat,<br>Resolved its depth to try.<br>She saw the warm and dazzling ray<br>Upon the spotless surface play:<br>She purr'd around its circle wide,<br>And gazed, and long'd, and mew'd and sigh'd!<br>But Fate, unfriendly, did that hour controul,<br>She overset the cream, and smash'd the gilded bowl!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As MISTRESS GURTON heard the thief,<br>She started from her easy chair,<br>And, quite unmindful of her grief,<br>Began aloud to swear!<br>"Curse that voracious beast!" she cried,<br>"Here SUSAN bring a cord--<br>I'll hang the vicious, ugly creature--<br>"The veriest plague e'er form'd by nature!"<br>And MISTRESS GURTON kept her word--<br>And Poor GRIMALKIN--DIED !</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus, often, we with anguish sore<br>The dead , in clam'rous grief deplore;<br>Who, were they once alive again<br>Would meet the sting of cold disdain!<br>For FRIENDS, whom trifling faults can sever,<br>Are valued most , WHEN LOST FOR EVER!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Darby+Robinson">Mary Darby Robinson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455622" data-title="Mistress Gurton's Cat de Mary Darby Robinson" data-description="Old MISTRESS GURTON had a Cat, A Tabby, loveliest of the race, Sleek as a doe, and tame, and fat With velvet paws, and whisker'd face; The Doves of VENUS not so fair, Nor JUNO'S Peacocks half so grand As MISTRESS GURTON'S Tabby rare, The proudest ..."></div> </div> </div>
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