My Dog
To-day hell chuckled at another lie,
That gave no human being any pain,
Except one temporary soul. Nor Cain
Was more heart-heavy when he came to die.
I branded him a cur that by-and-bye
Would go the way of mongrels and be slain,
By man nor God regretted; clear and plain
Were the reproaches written in his eye.
He bridled slightly ere he slunk away
An hour ago and perished in a bog,
Saving two children who had gone astray:
Since when the sirens sounding through the fog
Are Gabriel horns that thunder me to pray,
Or to be damned for slandering my dog.
That gave no human being any pain,
Except one temporary soul. Nor Cain
Was more heart-heavy when he came to die.
I branded him a cur that by-and-bye
Would go the way of mongrels and be slain,
By man nor God regretted; clear and plain
Were the reproaches written in his eye.
He bridled slightly ere he slunk away
An hour ago and perished in a bog,
Saving two children who had gone astray:
Since when the sirens sounding through the fog
Are Gabriel horns that thunder me to pray,
Or to be damned for slandering my dog.
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