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Odd-eyed cat: photo by Keith Kissel, 2007
Life is the Bodies light; which once declining,
Those crimson clouds i'th'cheeks & lips leave shining.
Those counter-changed Tabbies in the ayre,
(The Sun once set) all of one colour are...
Those crimson clouds i'th'cheeks & lips leave shining.
Those counter-changed Tabbies in the ayre,
(The Sun once set) all of one colour are...
Ribbon Eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita), close-up: photo by Chris Watanabe, 2005
Blue Primula (Primula acaulis), Germany: photo by 4028mdk09, 2010
Blue and yellow grapes, Tbilisi, Georgia: photo by Giga Paitchadze, 2007
Sleepy Blue-and-yellow Macaws (Ara ararauna),Weltvogelpark Walsrode, Germany: photo by Olaf Oliver Riemer, 2010
Blue-and-yellow Macaws (Ara ararauna): photo by Beralpo, 2006
Robert Herrick: Life is the Bodies Light (excerpt), from Hesperides, 1648
Tabbies: from the French tabis "striped silk taffeta", "a rich, watered silk," from Middle French atabis (14c.), from Arabic 'attabiya, from 'Attabiy, a neighborhood of Baghdad where such cloth was first made, named for prince 'Attab of the Omayyad dynasty.
Cf. The New-yeeres Gift:
Let others look for Pearle and Gold,
Tissues, or tabbies manifold...
Tabbies: from the French tabis "striped silk taffeta", "a rich, watered silk," from Middle French atabis (14c.), from Arabic 'attabiya, from 'Attabiy, a neighborhood of Baghdad where such cloth was first made, named for prince 'Attab of the Omayyad dynasty.
Cf. The New-yeeres Gift:
Let others look for Pearle and Gold,
Tissues, or tabbies manifold...