Diamond Cut Diamond by Ewart Milne

Two cats

One up a tree

One under a tree

The cat up a tree is he

The cat under the tree is she

The tree is witch elm, just incidentally.

He takes no notice of she, she takes no notice of he.

He stares at the woolly clouds passing, she stares at the tree.

There’s been a lot written about cats, by Old Possum, Yeats and

Company

But not Alfred de Musset or Lord Tennyson or Poe or anybody

Wrote about one cat under, one cat up, a tree

God knows why this should be left to me

Except I like cats as cats be

Especially one cat up

And one cat under

A witch elm

Tree.