Saturday, August 14, 2010

DeFrosted Cat

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Feeling too weak to compose anything original.

So, here is a wonderful parody (sent by Aniket) and the original below it.

The mills of the 'wit' grind slowly but grind superfine; all is grist to his impartial mills.

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Sitting by the Fire on A Snowy Evening


by
Robert Frost's Cat from POETRY FOR CATS by Henry Beard
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Whose chair this is by now I know.

He's somewhere in the forest though;


He will not see me sitting here,


A place I'm not supposed to go.


He really is a little queer



To leave his fire's cozy cheer


And ride out by the frozen lake


The coldest evening of the year.


To love the snow it takes a flake;


The chill that makes your footpads ache,



The drifts too high to lurk or creep,


The icicles that drip and break.


His chair is comfy, soft and deep.


But I have got an urge to leap,


And mice to catch before I sleep.


And mice to catch before I sleep.
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.



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