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Now it was clear to every Shade	A
That some great wonder was before them	B
As Tom upon the palisade	A
Emptied as fast as Lulu bore them	B
The flasks upon the ocean wagon	C
And clear it was when Tom had cleaned	D
The liquor from the hundredth flagon	C
The Shades then saw Hell's darkest fiend	D
A sea cat with an awful jag on	C
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Up to this time he did not see	E
Upon the wide expanse of grey	F
A single thing approach his way	F
Which he might call his enemy	E
He spent the hours upon the rim	G
Leaping dancing rarely sitting	H
Always grinning always spitting	H
Waiting for a foe to swim	G
Within his range but through the night	I
Not a walrus offered fight	I
A most unusual night for him	G
But with the hundredth flagon drink	J
He spat at his inactive fate	K
And moving closer to the brink	J
Began more madly to gyrate	K
Upon his face ironic grim	G
A resolution was ingrained	L
If fish would not come unto him	G
To offer battle what remained	L
But that his fighting blood would freeze	M
Unless he were allowed to go	N
Ranging at will upon the seas	M
To fight and conquer every foe	N
With that into the cavernous deep	O
He took a ghastly flying leap	O
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Gaping breathless every Shade	A
Watched the course of the wild cat's raid	A
And never was an errand run	C
With means and end so much at one	C
For from his birth he was imbued	P
With hatred of his racial kind	Q
A more inveterate blasting feud	P
Within the world one could not find	Q
His stock were traitors to the sea	E
Had somehow learned the ways of earth	R
The need of air the mystery	E
Of things warm blooded and of birth	R
To avenge this shameful derogation	C
He had upon his final flask	S
Resolved to carry out his task	S
To wit the full extermination	C
First of his nearest order male	T
And female then the breed cetacean	C
Grampus porpoise dolphin whale	T
Humpback Rorqual Black and White	I
Then the walrus lion hood	U
Seals of all orders these he would	U
Just as they came in single fight	I
Or in the fortunes of m ecirc l eacute e	E
Challenge as his lawful prey	F
	-
The Blacksmith	V
I never knew an ocean steed	W
Develop such demonic speed	W
	-
Sir Isaac Newton	C
How he maintains that lightning rate	K
Now in air and now in water	X
And carries on such heavy slaughter	X
Is more than I can formulate	K
	-
Blake	Y
The tiger though in stretch of limb	G
And heft of bone is larger still	Z
For straight uxoricidal will	Z
Is but a lamb compared to him	G
	-
Bottom	A2
What humour is it makes him flail	T
His tawny quarters with that tail	T
	-
Owen Glendower	X
Did any electrician mark	B2
The explosive nature of that spark	B2
	-
Benjamin Franklin	C
I did in truth but cannot quite	I
See on the basis of my kite	I
How such a flame should always sit	C2
Upon a wild cat's caudal tip	D2
	-
Aesop	E2
Or what blind fury makes him whip	D2
His smoking sides to capture it	C2
An ignis fatuus that eludes	F2
The cat's most sanguinary moods	F2
	-
Euclid	G2
The reasons for the circles lie	H2
Within the nature of the thing	H
This cat must run around a ring	H
If he would catch his tail But why	H2
So bloodily he chaseth it	C2
Is past the compass of my wit	C2
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Johnny Walker	X
Just why this wild cat should revolve	I2
Leaving his nether tip uncaught	C2
And spend his energy for naught	C2
The denser Shades will never solve	I2
But granting that the speed is quicker	X
All we discerning spirits know	C
It's just the way a man would go	C
Grant the night and grant the liquor	X
	-
Calvin	C
If I had known that such mad brutes	F2
Had found before the world began	C
A place within the cosmic plan	C
They would have dished my Institutes	F2

E. J. Pratt

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