To go out\u00adside, and the\u00adre per\u00adchan\u00adce to stay
\nOr to remain within: that is the question:
\nWhe\u00adther \u2019tis bet\u00adter for a cat to suffer
\nThe cuffs and buf\u00adfets of incle\u00adment weather
\nThat Natu\u00adre rains on tho\u00adse who roam abroad,<\/p>\n
Or take a nap upon a scrap of carpet,
\nAnd so by dozing melt the solid hours
\nThat clog the clock\u2019s bright gears with sul\u00adlen time
\nAnd stall the din\u00adner bell.<\/p>\n
To sit, to stare
\nOut\u00addoors, and by a sta\u00adre to seem to state
\nA wish to ven\u00adture forth wit\u00adhout delay,
\nThen when the portal\u2019s ope\u00adned up, to stand
\nAs if trans\u00adfi\u00adxed by doubt.<\/p>\n
To prowl; to sleep;
\nTo choo\u00adse not kno\u00adwing when we may once more
\nOur read\u00admit\u00adtance gain: aye, there\u2019s the hairball;
\nFor if a paw were shaped to turn a knob,
\nOr work a lock or slip a window-catch,
\nAnd going out and coming in were made
\nAs simp\u00adle as the brea\u00adking of a bowl,
\nWhat cat would bear the household\u2019s pet\u00adty plagues,
\nThe cook\u2019s well-prac\u00adti\u00adced kicks, the butler\u2019s broom,
\nThe infant\u2019s care\u00adless pokes, the tick\u00adled ears,
\nThe tramp\u00adled tail, and all the dai\u00adly shocks
\nThat fur is heir to, when, of his own free will,
\nHe might his exodus or ent\u00adrance make
\nWith a mere mitten?<\/p>\n
Who would spa\u00adni\u00adels fear,
\nOr strays tres\u00adpas\u00adsing from a neighbor\u2019s yard,
\nBut that the dread of our unhee\u00added cries
\nAnd scrat\u00adches at a bar\u00adri\u00adca\u00added door
\nNo claw can open up, dis\u00adpels our nerve
\nAnd makes us rather bear our humans\u2019 faults
\nThan run away to ungues\u00adsed miseries?<\/p>\n
Thus cau\u00adti\u00adon doth make house cats of us all;
\nAnd thus the brist\u00adling hair of resolution
\nIs sof\u00adten\u00aded up with the pale brush of thought,
\nAnd sin\u00adce our choices hin\u00adge on weigh\u00adty things,
\nWe pau\u00adse upon the thres\u00adhold of decision.<\/p>\n
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