Entry 198

The sun was set; the night came on apace,
And falling dews bewet around the place;
The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings,
And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.
John Gay


Do cats eat bats? Do bats eat cats?
Lewis Carroll

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
John Berryman


The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
Claude Debussey


Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.
Francis Bacon

On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
William Shakespeare