“I’ll never be a lap dog, licking dirty feet,
A sleek dog, a meek dog, cringing for my meat,
Not for me the fireside, the well-filled plate,
But shut the door, and sharp stone, and cuff, and kick, and hate.”

(Irene Rutherford McLeod in Lone dog)
Grâce-Hollogne (B)

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“A leopard went around his cage
from one side back to the other side;
he stopped only when the keeper came around with meat;
A boy who had been there three hours
began to wonder, “Is life anything like that?””

(Charles Ives in The cage)
Liège-Sclessin (B)

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