Poem by Oliver Herford

Education

When People think that Kittens play,
It’s really quite the other way.
For when they chase the Ball or Bobbin
They learn to catch a Mouse or Robin.
The Kitten, deaf to Duty’s call,
Who will not chase the bounding ball,
A hungry Cathood will enjoy,
The scorn of Mouse and Bird and Boy.

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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