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To a Cat - by Jorge Luis Borges

11/12/2018

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                     Mirrors are not more silent
                     nor the creeping dawn more secretive;
                     in the moonlight, you are that panther
                     we catch sight of from afar.

                     By the inexplicable workings of a divine law,
                     we look for you in vain;
                     More remote, even, than the Ganges or the setting sun,
                     yours is the solitude, yours the secret.

                     Your haunch allows the lingering
                     caress of my hand.
                      You have accepted,
                     since that long forgotten past,
                     the love of the distrustful hand.

                     You belong to another time. You are lord
                     of a place bounded like a dream
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                     No son más silenciosos los espejos 
                     ni más furtiva el alba aventurera; 
                     eres, bajo la luna, esa pantera 
                     que nos es dado divisar de lejos.

                     Por obra indescifrable de un decreto 
                     divino, te buscamos vanamente; 
                     más remoto que el Ganges y el poniente, 
                     tuya es la soledad, tuyo el secreto.

                     Tu lomo condesciende a la morosa 
                     caricia de mi mano. Has admitido, 
                     desde esa eternidad que ya es olvido, 
                     el amor de la mano recelosa. 

                     En otro tiempo estás. Eres el dueño 
                     de un ámbito cerrado como un sueño.
1 Comment
Tony
11/18/2018 06:46:02 am

Love Borges! Thank you for sharing this poem.

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