作者：Herford, Oliver
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The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten试读：
The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten
作者：Herford, Oliver排版：燕子出版时间：2018-01-30本书由当当数字商店（公版书）授权北京当当科文电子商务有限公司制作与发行。— · 版权所有 侵权必究 · —The Rubáiyát of aPersian KittenWake! for the Golden Cat has put to flight The Mouse of Darkness with his Paw of Light: Which means, in Plain and simple every-day Unoriental Speech—The Dawn is bright.They say the Early Bird the Worm shall taste. Then rise, O Kitten! Wherefore, sleeping, waste The Fruits of Virtue? Quick! the Early Bird Will soon be on the Flutter—O make haste!The Early Bird has gone, and with him ta’en The Early Worm—Alas! the Moral’s plain, O Senseless Worm! Thus, thus we are repaid For Early Rising—I shall doze again.The Mouse makes merry ’mid the Larder Shelves, The Bird for Dinner in the Garden delves. I often wonder what the creatures eat One half so toothsome as they are Themselves.And that Inverted Bowl of Skyblue Delf That helpless lies upon the Pantry Shelf— Lift not your eyes to It for help, for It Is quite as empty as you are yourself.The Ball no question makes of Ayes or Noes, But right or left, as strikes the Kitten, goes; Yet why, altho’ I toss it Far Afield, It still returneth—Goodness only knows!A Secret Presence that my likeness feigns, And yet, quicksilver-like, eludes my pains— In vain I look for Him behind the glass; He is not there, and yet He still remains.What out of airy Nothing to invoke A senseless Something to resist the stroke Of unpermitted Paw—upon the pain Of Everlasting Penalties—if broke.I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way, And every Bulrush on the river bank A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray.Sometimes I think perchance that Allah may, When he created Cats, have thrown away The Tails He marred in making, and they grew To Cat-Tails and to Pussy-Willows grey.And lately, when I was not Feeling Fit, Bereft alike of Piety and Wit, There came an Angel Shape and offered me A Fragrant Plant and bid me taste of it.试读结束[说明：试读内容隐藏了图片]