Pangur Bán por W.H.Auden

Pangur, white Pangur, How happy we are 

Alone together, scholar and cat 

Each has his own work to do daily; 

For you it is hunting, for me study. 

Your shining eye watches the wall; 

My feeble eye is fixed on a book. 

You rejoice, when your claws entrap a mouse; 

I rejoice when my mind fathoms a problem. 

Pleased with his own art, neither hinders the other; 

Thus we live ever without tedium and envy.

W.H. Auden