Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple 1
Leaping like Leopards to the Sky
Then at the feet of the old Horizon
Laying her spotted Face to die
Stooping as low as the Otter's Window 5
Touching the Roof and tinting the Barn
Kissing her Bonnet to the Meadow
And the Juggler of Day is gone
Leaping like Leopards to the Sky
Then at the feet of the old Horizon
Laying her spotted Face to die
Stooping as low as the Otter's Window 5
Touching the Roof and tinting the Barn
Kissing her Bonnet to the Meadow
And the Juggler of Day is gone
(F.321/J.228)
[1] Gold, Purple:: color of the cat.
[2] Leopards:: a hint on leopard cat.
[4] spotted Face:: face of a leopard. die:: to hide.
[8] Juggler of Day:: a cat that plays tricks.
The Leopard-Cat. This animal is about the size of an American wild-cat. It is spotted, but not so brightly as the leopard, and is a very great pest. It often crouches about in the thick bush by day, and watches for fowls, and suddenly darts out, seizes, and runs off with them. One came out thus at the Mission, in open day, for the fowls; when a man and dog succeeded in killing it. The Palm Land (1859) by George Thompson
The large wild cat, called derdommo, or ackledamm common; a kind of leopard-cat, called anna arra tulre, much larger than the common domestic cat, is a most beautiful animal. ─ The Life and Adventures of Nathaniel Pearce (1831)
