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A POOR OLD DOG by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: PITY THE SORROWS OF A POOR OLD DOG
Last Line: SPARE, AND BE SPARED: -- OR WHO SHALL PLEAD FOR THEE?
Subject(s): ANIMALS; PITY;
Pity the sorrows of a poor old Dog
Who wags his tail a-begging in his need:
Despise not even the sorrows of a Frog,
God's creature too, and that's enough to plead:
Spare Puss who trusts us purring on our hearth:
Spare Bunny once so frisky and so free:
Spare all the harmless tenants of the earth:
Spare, and be spared: -- or who shall plead for thee?



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