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The children eat and wriggle and laugh,
The two old ladies stroke their silk;
But the cat is grown small and thin with desire,
Transformed to a creeping lust for milk.
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"Milk for the Cat", line 17, from Alida Monro (ed.) Collected Poems (London: Duckworth, 1970) p. 163.

 

Harold Monro

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