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11Fervent lovers and austere scholars alike,Ardent lovers and dry scholars alike,
22in their fuller years, love powerful yet gentle cats, the pride of the household,In their mature years, share a love of
33who, like them, feel the cold and lead sedentary lives. Powerful yet gentle cats, the pride of the household,
4Who, like them, feel the cold and lead sedentary lives.
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56Friends of scholarship and sensual delight,Lovers, too, of learning and sensual delight,
67they search out the silence and horror of the hours of darkness;They crave the dreadful silence of the hours of darkness;
78Erebus would have engaged them as messengers of gloom,Erebus himself would have engaged them as messengers of doom,
89if they could bring themselves to lower their pride to servitude.If they could only forget their vanity and bow to servitude.
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1011As they muse they take on the noble airsAs they muse they take on the majestic bearing
1112of those great sphinxes stretched out in total solitude,Of those great sphinxes stretched out in splendid isolation,
1213appearing to sleep in an endless dream;Appearing to slumber in an endless dream;
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1415Their fruitful loins filled with sparks of magic,Their fruitful loins filled with sparks of magic,
1516with gold dust, like the finest sand,With gold dust, like the finest sand,
1617the 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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