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Isas Sammlung von Hundegedichten & mehr
Isa's collection of dog poems & more
2015/12/23
Dogs know
Dogs know,
if men do not, that dogs and men are close, perhaps too much sometimes, and
they do not prattle of their deep wisdom, but it’s the truth and what they have
to know. Truth and what they give. Even if they do not wish, they must, and
follow at a heel, and haunt a doorstep, and cry when we are gone, or roll in
the dust. To entertain us, yielding up a paw into a hand. They whine because
the throat cannot articulate, and even plead for man’s forgiving on an
anguished note, when the legs cannot move fast enough, or faults of clumsiness
and frolic seem to raise human wrath. O, we are given much by these little
beasts who aggravate our days with their absurdities and ignorance, their
jealous faithfulness, their eyes that tell as if man were stripped to bone, had
nothing more, and found bare. He still would find his dog beside him there, to
give him comfort, and to tell him then, how good and splendid is the race of
men. Perhaps the only error and the lie, DOGS TELL TO MEN.
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