[Mid] Beocat

BEOCAT
(by the Old English Epic's Unknown Author's....Cat)

Brave Beocat,
Brood-kit of Ecgthemeow,
Hearth-pet of Hrothgar
In whose high halls
He mauled without mercy
Many fat mice,
Night did not find napping
Nor snack-feasting.
The wary war-cat,
Whiskered paw-wielder,
Bearer of the burnished neck-belt,
Gold-braided collar band,
Feller of fleas
Fatal, too, to ticks,
The work of wonder-smiths,
Woven with witches' charms,
Sat on the throne-seat
His ears like sword points
Upraised, sharp-tipped,
Listening for peril-sounds,
When he heard from the moor-hill
Howls of the hell-hound,
Gruesome hunger-grunts
Of Grendel's Great Dane,
Deadly doom-mutt,
Dread demon dog.
Then boasted Beocat,
Noble battle kitten,
Bane of barrow-bunnies,
Bold seeker of nest-booty:
"If hand of Man unhasped
The heavy hall-door
And freed me to frolic forth
To fight the fang-bearing fiend,
I would lay the whelpling low
With lethal claw-blows;
Fur would fly
And the foe would taste death-food.
But resounding snooze-noise,
Stern slumber-thunder,
Nose-music of men snoring
Mead-hammered in the wine-hall,
Fills me with sorrow-feeling
For Fate does not see fit
To send some Fingered Folk
To lift the firm-fastened latch
That I might go grapple
With the grim ghoul-pooch."
Thus spoke the mouse-shredder,
Hunter of hall-pests,
Short-haired Hrodent-slayer,
Greatest of pussy-Geats.
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