Ally Cat's Mommy
02-26-2005, 03:03 AM
I have been hunting for this poem for YEARS, as I remember it from my childhood. I managed to find a copy of the book on eBay (The Fireside Book of David Hope - 1972), so I hope you like it:
A Name For The Cat by David Hope
The name should be short
And easily heard,
Preferably just a one-
Syllable word.
Jill, or else Sooty-
Remember the sex!
Call a tom Mary,
His spirit you’ll vex!
A name to resound
To the park down the way,
Yet one that the baby
Can easily say.
Cats at a cat show,
The names they all bear-
Griselda of Grange,
Lady Lorna of Ware!
Could you or I yodel
“Puss, puss are you there?
Com in for your milk,
Lady Lorna of Ware!”
Cats have their dignity-
Don’t we all know!
Perhaps they enjoy
Fancy names at the show.
But back in the family,
I know, sure enough,
Griselda is Tibby,
And Lorna – just Fluff!
A Name For The Cat by David Hope
The name should be short
And easily heard,
Preferably just a one-
Syllable word.
Jill, or else Sooty-
Remember the sex!
Call a tom Mary,
His spirit you’ll vex!
A name to resound
To the park down the way,
Yet one that the baby
Can easily say.
Cats at a cat show,
The names they all bear-
Griselda of Grange,
Lady Lorna of Ware!
Could you or I yodel
“Puss, puss are you there?
Com in for your milk,
Lady Lorna of Ware!”
Cats have their dignity-
Don’t we all know!
Perhaps they enjoy
Fancy names at the show.
But back in the family,
I know, sure enough,
Griselda is Tibby,
And Lorna – just Fluff!