The black cat, the black cat jumping over the mud-built thorp house,
As black as the night, deep and dark night,
Representing the dark side of the Creation,
What it is dark will remain so,
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The black cat,
The black night
And the black hamlet
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The black cat
Crossing the way
And vanishing
In the dark
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The fishing cat
of the marshland
peculiarly wild and swift
and tameless
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The black cow,
The black dog,
The black cat,
It is a beauty,
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The black cat
With the burning, burning
And glowing eyes
Quarelling
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It was a beauty
To see the fishing cat
By the pond-side
Of the marshland,
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The black cat jumping from the second floor
Of the mud-built countryside home
With the burning-burning eyes
In the dark and desolate country
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The black cat
Jumping from the mud house
Of the hamlet home
With the burning-burning eyes,
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The black cat with the burning eyes jumping from
The dark second floor of the hamlet home
And vanishing in the dark.
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The black cat
Jumping fromn the second storey of the mud-house
In the dark and lonely hamlet during the dark night-time
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