<p><strong>The Cats</strong></p><p><strong>By H. P. Lovecraft</strong></p><p>Babels of blocks to the high heavens tow’ring,</p><p>Flames of futility swirling below;</p><p>Poisonous fungi in brick and stone flow’ring,</p><p>Lanterns that shudder and death-lights that glow.</p><br><p>Black monstrous bridges across oily rivers,</p><p>Cobwebs of cable by nameless things spun;</p><p>Catacomb deeps whose dank chaos delivers</p><p>Streams of live foetor, that rots in the sun.</p><br><p>Colour and splendour, disease and decaying,</p><p>Shrieking and ringing and scrambling insane,</p><p>Rabbles exotic to stranger-gods praying,</p><p>Jumbles of odour that stifle the brain.</p><br><p>Legions of cats from the alleys nocturnal,</p><p>Howling and lean in the glare of the moon,</p><p>Screaming the future with mouthings infernal,</p><p>Yelling the burden of Pluto’s red rune.</p><br><p>Tall tow’rs and pyramids ivy’d and crumbling,</p><p>Bats that swoop low in the weed-cumber’d streets;</p><p>Bleak broken bridges o’er rivers whose rumbling</p><p>Joins with no voice as the thick tide retreats.</p><br><p>Belfries that blackly against the moon totter,</p><p>Caverns whose mouths are by mosses effac’d,</p><p>And living to answer the wind and the water,</p><p>Only the lean cats that howl in the waste!</p><br><p><a href="https://thatsnotcanon.com/epigraphy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Find us online at thatsnotcanon.com/epigraphy</strong></a></p><p><strong>Subscribe to us on</strong><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/glass-of-whine/id1434970940" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> ITUNES</strong></a><strong>,&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=229046&amp;refid=stpr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>STITCHER</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/197nZ8UzMc0FM4e5rRYOqG?si=B5W6Moj-QYK1IMoS7c0JOg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>SPOTIFY</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://radiopublic.com/castology-6nB101" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>RADIOPUBLIC</strong></a><strong> or your </strong><a href="https://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/castologypodcast?format=rss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>podcatcher of choice</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><strong>Find us on </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/castology" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>FACEBOOK</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/castology" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>TWITTER </strong></a><strong>or </strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/castologypodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>INSTAGRAM</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><br></p> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>