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IN MEMORY OF A DUMB FRIEND, by                    
First Line: Strange that so small mortality should leave
Last Line: And all god gave to you, to us you gave.
Subject(s): Animals


STRANGE that so small mortality should leave
So large an emptiness! for as we grieve
Your little life of seven happy years
Ended for us, one who could understand
Each subtle word, and answer hand with hand
Had hardly taken greater toll of tears.

YET why should we not mourn as for a friend?
That name was yours; if every man would spend
His life as well, earth were not hard to save.
Grant that God made your heart and brain but small.
What more has an archangel than his all?
And all God gave to you, to us you gave.





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