<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534096" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Greater Cats</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The greater cats with golden eyes<br>Stare out between the bars.<br>Deserts are there, and the different skies,<br>And night with different stars.<br>They prowl the aromatic hill,<br>And mate as fiercely as they kill,<br>To roam, to live, to drink their fill;<br>But this beyond their wit know I:<br> Man loves a little, and for long shall die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their kind across the desert range<br>Where tulips spring from stones,<br>Not knowing they will suffer change<br>Or vultures pick their bones.<br>Their strength's eternal in their sight,<br>They overtake the deer in flight,<br>And in their arrogance they smite;<br>But I am sage, if they are strong:<br> Man's love is transient as his death is long.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet oh what powers to deceive!<br>My wit is turned to faith,<br>And at this moment I believe<br>In love, and scout at death.<br>I came from nowhere, and shall be<br>Strong, steadfast, swift, eternally:<br>I am a lion, a stone, a tree,<br>And as the Polar star in me<br>Is fixed my constant heart on thee.<br>Ah, may I stay forever blind<br> With lions, tigers, leopards, and their kind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victoria+Sackville-West">Victoria Sackville-West</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=534096" data-title="The Greater Cats de Victoria Sackville-West" data-description="The greater cats with golden eyes Stare out between the bars. Deserts are there, and the different skies, And night with different stars. They prowl the aromatic hill, And mate as fiercely as they kill, To roam, to live, to drink their fill; But t..."></div> </div> </div>

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