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Black Cat
My Dear Minna
You were the Empress of my heart from the first time I saw you. Even now a year after your death I miss you so much. I thank God for the three years we had together. It was not nearly enough but I am so grateful for every moment. I hope you know that I tried to do what was best for you. There is nothing I wouldn't have done for you. I will always treasure you in my heart.
May God bless all animals and keep them in holy love.
The Cat and the Moon
by William Butler Yeats
The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
For wander and wail as [she] would,
The pure cold light in the sky
Troubled [her] animal blood.
Minnaloushe runs in the grass
Lifting [her] delicate feet.
Do you dance Minnaloushe do you dance?
When two close kindred meet,
What better than call a dance?
Maybe the moon may learn,
Tired of that courtly fashion,
A new dance turn.
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
From moonlit place to place,
The sacred moon overhead
Has taken a new phase.
Does Minnaloushe know that [her] pupils
Will pass from change to change,
And that from round to crescent
From crescent to round they range?
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
[Her] changing eyes.
| Minnaloushe |