T.S. Eliot book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Old Deuteronomy
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
“In times of old when Nature in her glad excess
Brought forth such living marvels as no more are seen,
I should have loved to dwell with a young giantess,
Like a voluptuous cat about the feet of a queen.”
La Geante (1859)
Salon de 1859 (1859)
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