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1 | 1 | Ardent lovers and dry scholars alike, | |
2 | 2 | In their mature years, share a love of | |
3 | 3 | Powerful yet gentle cats, the pride of the household, | |
4 | Who, like them, feel the cold and lead sedentary lives. | ||
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5 | 6 | Lovers, too, of learning and sensual delight, | |
6 | 7 | They crave the dreadful silence of the hours of darkness; | |
7 | 8 | Erebus would have engaged them as messengers of | Erebus himself would have engaged them as messengers of doom, |
8 | 9 | If they could only forget their vanity and bow to servitude. | |
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10 | 11 | As they muse they take on the | As they muse they take on the majestic bearing |
11 | 12 | Of those great sphinxes stretched out in splendid isolation, | |
12 | 13 | Appearing to slumber in an endless dream; | |
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14 | 15 | Their fruitful loins filled with sparks of magic, | Their fruitful loins filled with sparks of magic, |
15 | 16 | With gold dust, like the finest sand, | |
16 | 17 | The pupils of their eyes flickering with the mystical light of distant stars. |
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