The fireside sphinx . CHAPTER VII THE CAT TRIUMPHANT He stood, an ebon crescent, flouting that ivorj raised the pibroch of his race, the Song without a Tuna. OUT of the murky shadows which shroudthe cat during long centuries of passiveneglect or active persecution, there gleamhere and there flashes of brilliant light in v/hich wesee her sheltered by those whose protection was anhonour, cherished by those whose love was a conse-cration. In Italy, poets as well as painters felt thesweet charm of her companionship, and strove togive their sympathy expression. Tasso addressedto his cat a
The fireside sphinx . CHAPTER VII THE CAT TRIUMPHANT He stood, an ebon crescent, flouting that ivorj raised the pibroch of his race, the Song without a Tuna. OUT of the murky shadows which shroudthe cat during long centuries of passiveneglect or active persecution, there gleamhere and there flashes of brilliant light in v/hich wesee her sheltered by those whose protection was anhonour, cherished by those whose love was a conse-cration. In Italy, poets as well as painters felt thesweet charm of her companionship, and strove togive their sympathy expression. Tasso addressedto his cat a sonnet brimming with tender flattery;and of Petrarchs pet it has been prettily said thatshe was her masters joy in the sunshine, his solace THE CAT TRIUMPHANT 127 in the shade. When she died, her httle body wascarefully embalmed; and travellers who visitedArqua, and the poets home, hidden among theEuganean Hills, have stared and mocked and won-dered at this poor semblance of cathood, this fur-less, withered mummy, wh
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