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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DOG'S DEATH, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The loose earth falls in the grave like a peaceful regular breathing
Last Line: Nor trouble what we do when we do it; nor would have it otherwise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C.
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs
First Line: The loose earth falls in the grave like a peaceful regular breathing
Last Line: Nor trouble what we do when we do it; nor would have it otherwise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C.
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs
THE loose earth falls in the grave like a peaceful regular breathing;
Too like, for I was deceived a moment by the sound:
It has covered the heap of bracken that the gardener laid above him,
Quiet the spade swings: there we have now his mound.
A patch of fresh earth on the floor of the wood's renewing chamber:
All around is grass and moss and the hyacinth's dark green sprouts:
And oaks are above that were old when his fiftieth sire was a puppy:
And far away in the garden I hear the children's shouts.
Their joy is remote as a dream. It is strange how we buy our sorrow
For the touch of perishing things, idly, with open eyes;
How we give our hearts to brutes that will die in a few seasons,
Nor trouble what we do when we do it; nor would have it otherwise.
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