Bury her deep, down deep in your heart, alive in memory. These are lines from E. V. Rieu’s “Cat’s Funeral”:
No more to watch bird stir;
No more to clean dark fur:
No more to glisten as silk;
No more to revel in milk;
No more to purr.
Bury her deep, down deep;
She is beyond warm sleep.
She will not walk in the night;
She will not wake to the light.
Bury her deep.
(Quoted from page 44 of One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children, by Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark. Oxford University Press, 2007.)
For a brief biography of E. V Rieu, click here. For images of or relating to E. V Rieu, click here.
No more to watch bird stir;
No more to clean dark fur:
No more to glisten as silk;
No more to revel in milk;
No more to purr.
Bury her deep, down deep;
She is beyond warm sleep.
She will not walk in the night;
She will not wake to the light.
Bury her deep.
(Quoted from page 44 of One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children, by Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark. Oxford University Press, 2007.)
For a brief biography of E. V Rieu, click here. For images of or relating to E. V Rieu, click here.
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