Sidney Lanier,
To Our Mocking-BirdDied of a cat…
“ Of serious matter that no man may guess,— Good-fellow greetings, cries of light distress— All these but now within the house we heard: O Death, wast thou too deaf to hear the bird? II. Ah me, though never an ear for song, thou hast A tireless tooth for songsters: thus of late Thou camest, Death, thou Cat! ”
