I KNEW a little Serval cat -- Never get out! Would pad all day from this to that -- Never get out! From bar to bar she'd turn and turn, And in her eyes a fire would burn -- (From her zoology we learn!) Never get out! But if by hap a ray of sun Came shining in her cage, she'd run And sit upon her haunches where Into the open she could stare, And with the free that sunlight share -- Never get out! That catling's jungle heart forlorn Will die as wild as it was born... If I could cage the human race Awhile like her, in prisoned space, And teach them what it is to face -- Never get out!... | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE VIRGIN MARY TO THE CHILD JESUS by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE MEDAL; A SATIRE AGAINST SEDITION by JOHN DRYDEN SONG: 6 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SAVONAROLA BROWN, SELECTION by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM THE ART OF BOOK-KEEPING by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 2. EPILOGUE: 5TH OCTOBER 1896 by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |