best cat poem ever

[swan_tower]

"Best" because it's written by an eighteenth-century lunatic, in celebration of the divine aspects of his cat.

"For I will consider my cat Jeoffry"

(Yoinked from akashiver)

Comments

[dr_whom]

I believe he also wrote "For the mouse is a creature of great personal valour."

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Absolutely.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Bits of that may be embroidered and hung upon my wall.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I quite like, "For he will not do destruction, if he is well-fed."

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Indeed. :-)

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

Have you heard the Benjamin Britten setting, Rejoice in the Lamb?
It includes both "For I will consider my cat Jeoffry" and "The mouse is a creature of great personal valour".

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

O_O

Must. Find. This.

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

Try Last FM (http://www.last.fm/music/Benjamin+Britten/BRITTEN%253A%2BRejoice%2Bin%2Bthe%2BLamb%2B%252F%2BHymn%2Bto%2BSt.%2BCecilia%2B%252F%2BMissa%2BBrevis%252C%2BOp.%2B63/For+I+will+consider+my+cat+Jeoffrey)

That's the recording by the choir of my own college, with a boy treble (which I'm sure Britten would have approved)

[akashiver.livejournal.com]

Oh that's brilliant! I'm yoinking it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That poem is an Absolute Truth, or so I am informed by my feline overlords (and lady).

[xahra99.livejournal.com]

Indeed.