Poem by Oliver Herford

The Shadow Kitten

There’s a funny little kitten that tries to look like me,
But though I’m round and fluffy, he’s as flat as flat can be;
And when I try to mew to him he never makes a sound,
And when I jump into the air he never leaves the ground.
He has a way of growing, I don’t understand at all.
Sometimes he’s very little and sometimes he’s very tall.
And once when in the garden when the sun came up at dawn
He grew so big I think he stretched half-way across the lawn.

1. A Song of a Heart
2. Why Ye Blossome Cometh before Ye Leafe
3. Facilis Ascensus
4. Foreign Kittens
5. Proem

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