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I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Cat, Blue, Owl
'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Holy Grail' (1869) l. 862
I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.