Pangur, white Pangur,
How happy we are
Alone together,
Scholar and cat.

Each has his own work to do daily;
For you it is hunting,
For me study.

Your shining eye watches the wall;
My feeble eye is fixed on a book.

You rejoice when your claws entrap a mouse;
I rejoice when my mind fathoms a problem.

Pleased with his own art,
Neither hinders the other;
Thus we live ever
Without tedium and envy.

Pangur, white Pangur,
How happy we are
Alone together,
Scholar and cat.