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The Golden Cat

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Great is the Golden Cat who treads          The Blue Roof Garden o'er our heads,     The never tired smiling One          That Human People call the Sun.     He stretches forth his paw at dawn          And though the blinds are closely drawn     His claws peep through like Rays of Light,          To catch the fluttering Bird of Night.     He smiles into the Hayloft dim          And the brown Hay smiles back at him,     And when he strokes the Earth's green fur          He makes the Fields and Meadows purr.     His face is one big Golden smile,          It measures round, at least a mile--     How dull our World would be, and flat,          Without the Golden Pussy Cat.

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