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All ardent lovers and all sages prize, / -- As ripening years incline upon their brows -- / The mild and mighty cats -- pride of the house -- / That like unto them are indolent, stern and wise.
The friends of Learning and of Ecstasy, / They search for silence and the horrors of gloom; / The devil had used them for his steeds of Doom, / Could he alone have bent their pride to slavery.