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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT A DOG'S RESTING-PLACE (JACK, MON PAUVRE CHIEN), by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY
First Line: Part of the sylvan scene
Last Line: And hearts are glad and ache.
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Memory
First Line: Part of the sylvan scene
Last Line: And hearts are glad and ache.
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Memory
Part of the sylvan scene
Where the leaves whisper and the boughs embrace,
And the lake's lilied splendor shines between,
Is the dog's resting-place.
The sunlight streaming down
The dark earth quickens all the summer day
As though it still were claiming for its own
The light that's passed away.
The snowflakes, when they fall,
From Nature's memory efface poor Jack,
But the great Being who remembers all
Bids springtime call him back.
I doubt not the great sun
And stars, in their diurnal journeyings,
With as deep interest regard this one
As tombs of Egypt's kings.
No, he is not forgot;
Regret is voiced by every vagrant wind;
The shade of sorrow haunts this lovely spot;
Who sees her not is blind.
So is it oft with men;
Who least attempts it highest writes his name
Wealth, honor, glory, turn to naught again;
The cheat of cheats is fame.
No tear unheeded falls;
Heaven sent man grief—a boon beneficent;
The queenly college with its groves and halls
Is a child's monument.
These shrines will long remain;
Here willing feet their pilgrimage will make,
While Learning yields her pleasure and her pain,
And hearts are glad and ache.
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