Who shall tell the lady's grief
When her Cat was past relief?
Who shall number the hot tears
Shed o'er her, beloved for years?
Who shall say the dark dismay
Which her dying caused that day?
Christina Georgina Rosetti, “On the Death of a Cat, a Friend of Mine Aged Ten Years and a Half”
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