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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537859" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Colubriad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Close by the threshold of a door nailed fast<br>Three kittens sat; each kitten looked aghast;<br>I passing swift and inattentive by,<br>At the three kittens cast a careless eye,<br>Not much concerned to know what they did there,<br>Not deeming kittens worth a poet's care.<br>But presently a loud and furious hiss<br>Caused me to stop and to exclaim, 'What's this?'<br>When lo! upon the threshold met my view,<br>With head erect, and eyes of fiery hue,<br>A viper, long as Count de Grasse's quoue.<br>Forth from his head his forked tongue he throws,<br>Darting it full against a kitten's nose,<br>Who having never seen, in field or house,<br>The like, sat still and silent as a mouse;<br>Only projecting with attention due,<br>Her whiskered face, she asked him, 'Who are you?'<br>On to the hall went I, with pace not slow,<br>But swift as lightning, for a long Dutch hoe,<br>With which well armed I hastened to the spot,<br>To find the viper, -- but I found him not;<br>And turning up the leaves, and shrubs around,<br>Formed only, that he was not to be found.<br>But still the kittens, sitting as before,<br>Sat watching close the bottom of the door.<br>'I hope,' said I, 'the villain I would kill<br>Has slipped between the door and the door sill;<br>And if I make despatch and follow hard,<br>No doubt but I shall find him in the yard;<br>For long ere now it should have been rehearsed,<br>'Twas in the garden that I found him first.<br>Even there I found him, there the full-grown cat<br>His head, with velvet paw, did gently pat,<br>As curious as the kittens erst had been<br>To learn what this phenomenon might mean,<br>Filled with heroic ardour at the sight,<br>And fearing every moment he would bite,<br>And rob our household of our only cat <br>That was of age to combat with a rat,<br>With outstretched hoe I slew him at the door,<br>And taught him Never To Come There No More.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</a><div class=q>
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Three kittens sat; each kitten looked aghast;
I passing swift and inattentive by,
At the three kittens cast a careless eye,
Not much concerned to know what they did there,
Not deeming kittens worth a po..."></div>
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