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Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time	A
He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession	B
He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme	A
A long while before Queen Victoria's accession	B
Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wives	C
And more I am tempted to say ninety nine	D
And his numerous progeny prospers and thrives	C
And the village is proud of him in his decline	D
At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy	A
When he sits in the sun on the vicarage wall	E
The Oldest Inhabitant croaks Well of all	E
Things Can it be really No Yes	F
Ho hi	G
Oh my eye	G
My mind may be wandering but I confess	F
I believe it is Old Deuteronomy	A
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Old Deuteronomy sits in the street	H
He sits in the High Street on market day	I
The bullocks may bellow the sheep they may bleat	I
But the dogs and the herdsmen will turn them away	I
The cars and the lorries run over the kerb	J
And the villagers put up a notice ROAD CLOSED	I
So that nothing untoward may chance to distrub	J
Deuteronomy's rest when he feels so disposed	I
Or when he's engaged in domestic economy	A
And the Oldest Inhabitant croaks Well of all	E
Things Can it be really No Yes	F
Ho hi	G
Oh my eye	G
My sight's unreliable but I can guess	F
That the cause of the trouble is Old Deuteronomy	A
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Old Deuteronomy lies on the floor	K
Of the Fox and French Horn for his afternoon sleep	L
And when the men say There's just time for one more	K
Then the landlady from her back parlour will peep	L
And say New then out you go by the back door	K
For Old Deuteronomy mustn't be woken	B
	-
I'll have the police if there's any uproar	K
And out they all shuffle without a word spoken	B
The digestive repose of that feline's gastronomy	A
Must never be broken whatever befall	E
And the Oldest Inhabitant croaks Well of all	E
Things Can it be really No Yes	F
Ho hi	G
Oh my eye	G
My legs may be tottery I must go slow	M
And be careful of Old Deuteronomy	A
	-
Of the awefull battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles	F
together with some account of the participation of the	N
Pugs and the Poms and the intervention of the Great	I
Rumpuscat	I
	-
The Pekes and the Pollicles everyone knows	F
Are proud and implacable passionate foes	F
It is always the same wherever one goes	F
And the Pugs and the Poms although most people say	F
That they do not like fighting yet once in a way	F
They will now and again join in to the fray	F
And they	F
Bark bark bark bark	O
Bark bark BARK BARK	O
Until you can hear them all over the Park	O
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Now on the occasion of which I shall speak	P
Almost nothing had happened for nearly a week	P
And that's a long time for a Pol or a Peke	P
The big Police Dog was away from his beat	I
I don't know the reason but most people think	P
He'd slipped into the Wellington Arms for a drink	P
And no one at all was about on the street	I
When a Peke and a Pollicle happened to meet	I
They did not advance or exactly retreat	I
But they glared at each other and scraped their hind	I
feet	I
And they started to	I
Bark bark bark bark	P
Bark bark BARK BARK	P
Until you can hear them all over the Park	P
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Now the Peke although people may say what they please	F
Is no British Dog but a Heathen Chinese	F
And so all the Pekes when they heard the uproar	K
Some came to the window some came to the door	K
There were surely a dozen more likely a score	K
And together they started to grumble and wheeze	F
In their huffery snuffery Heathen Chinese	F
But a terrible din is what Pollicles like	P
For your Pollicle Dog is a dour Yorkshire tyke	P
And his braw Scottish cousins are snappers and biters	F
And every dog jack of them notable fighters	F
And so they stepped out with their pipers in order	Q
Playing When the Blue Bonnets Came Over the Border	Q
Then the Pugs and the Poms held no longer aloof	R
But some from the balcony some from the roof	R
Joined in	S
To the din	S
With a	N
Bark bark bark bark	P
Bark bark BARK BARK	P
Until you can hear them all over the Park	P
	-
Now when these bold heroes together assembled	I
That traffic all stopped and the Underground trembled	I
And some of the neighbours were so much afraid	I
That they started to ring up the Fire Brigade	I
When suddenly up from a small basement flat	I
Why who should stalk out but the GREAT RUMPUSCAT	I
His eyes were like fireballs fearfully blazing	P
He gave a great yawn and his jaws were amazing	P
And when he looked out through the bars of the area	N
You never saw anything fiercer or hairier	N
And what with the glare of his eyes and his yawning	P
The Pekes and the Pollicles quickly took warning	P
He looked at the sky and he gave a great leap	L
And they every last one of them scattered like sheep	L
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And when the Police Dog returned to his beat	I
There wasn't a single one left in the street	I

T. S. Eliot

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