Cat Playing Cupid

For E.L.T.,

who runs faster, climbs higher,

eats more greedily, is more loving,

and sleeps with her paws in the air.

May your Joy last forever.

Cupid drew from his quiver two arrows of different workmanship-one to excite love, the other to repel it. The former was of gold and sharp pointed, the latter blunt and tipped with lead. With the leaden shaft he struck the nymph Daphne…and with the golden one [he pierced] Apollo…Forthwith the god was seized with love for the maiden, but she, more than ever, abhorred the thought of loving.

Charles Mills Gayley,

The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art,

1893, Ginn and Company