Dogs may fawn on all and some 



As they come; 



TCoU) a friend of loftier mind^ 

 Answer friends alone in kind. 

 Just your foot upon my hand 

 Softly bids it understand. 



8 This is the very perfection of sympathy, a 

 quality not too common amongst our poets 

 when they refer to cats. Gray, for instance, 

 when the pensive Selima was drowned in a 

 tub of gold-fishes, described the tragedy with 

 an elaborate facetiousness, and found in it an 

 opportunity for cold moralizing. Ever since 

 the far-off day when I was ordered to trans- 

 late them into Latin elegiacs I have detested 

 these heartless stanzas. Why, moreover, 

 should Selima's death be used to enforce the 

 lesson (see the last line) that not all that 

 glisters is gold ? Selima was not out for gold. 

 She wanted fish, and the dullest dace would 

 have lured her to her fatal fall equally well. 

 Gray should have known better, for he had 

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