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11Ardent lovers and dry scholars alike,Fervent lovers and austere scholars alike,
22In their mature years, share a love ofin their fuller years, love powerful yet gentle cats, the pride of the household,
33Powerful yet gentle cats, the pride of the household,who, like them, feel the cold and lead sedentary lives.
4Who, like them, feel the cold and lead sedentary lives.
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65Lovers, too, of learning and sensual delight,Friends of scholarship and sensual delight,
76They crave the dreadful silence of the hours of darkness;they search out the silence and horror of the hours of darkness;
87Erebus himself would have engaged them as messengers of doom,Erebus would have engaged them as messengers of gloom,
98If they could only forget their vanity and bow to servitude.if they could bring themselves to lower their pride to servitude.
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1110As they muse they take on the majestic bearingAs they muse they take on the noble airs
1211Of those great sphinxes stretched out in splendid isolation,of those great sphinxes stretched out in total solitude,
1312Appearing to slumber in an endless dream;appearing to sleep in an endless dream;
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1514Their fruitful loins filled with sparks of magic,Their fruitful loins filled with sparks of magic,
1615With gold dust, like the finest sand,with gold dust, like the finest sand,
1716The pupils of their eyes flickering with the mystical light of distant stars.the pupils of their eyes flickering with the mystical light of distant stars.

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