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I lay one happy night in bed	A
And dreamed that all the dogs were dead	A
They'd all been taken out and shot	B
Their bodies strewed each vacant lot	B
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O'er all the earth from Berkeley down	C
To San Leandro's ancient town	C
And out in space as far as Niles	D
I saw their mortal parts in piles	D
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One stack upreared its ridge so high	E
Against the azure of the sky	E
That some good soul with pious views	F
Put up a steeple and sold pews	F
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No wagging tail the scene relieved	G
I never in my life conceived	G
I swear it on the Decalogue	E
Such penury of living dog	E
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The barking and the howling stilled	H
The snarling with the snarler killed	H
All nature seemed to hold its breath	I
The silence was as deep as death	I
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True candidates were all in roar	J
On every platform as before	J
And villains as before felt free	K
To finger the calliope	K
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True the Salvationist by night	L
And milkman in the early light	L
The lonely flutist and the mill	M
Performed their functions with a will	M
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True church bells on a Sunday rang	E
The sick man's curtain down the bang	E
Of trains contesting for the track	E
Out of the shadow called him back	E
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True cocks at all unheavenly hours	N
Crew with excruciating powers	N
Cats on the woodshed rang and roared	O
Fat citizens and fog horns snored	O
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But this was all too fine for ears	P
Accustomed through the awful years	P
To the nocturnal monologues	Q
And day debates of Oakland dogs	R
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And so the world was silent Now	S
What else befell to whom and how	S
Imprimis then there were no fleas	T
And days of worth brought nights of ease	T
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Men walked about without the dread	O
Of being torn to many a shred	O
Each fragment holding half a cruse	F
Of hydrophobia's quickening juice	U
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They had not to propitiate	O
Some curst kioodle at each gate	O
But entered one another's grounds	V
Unscared and were not fed to hounds	V
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Women could drive and not a pup	W
Would lift the horse's tendons up	W
And let them go to interject	O
A certain musical effect	O
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Even children's ponies went about	O
All grave and sober paced without	O
A bulldog hanging to each nose	X
Proud of his fragrance I suppose	X
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Dog being dead Man's lawless flame	Y
Burned out he granted Woman's claim	Y
Children's and those of country art	O
all took lodgings in his heart	O
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When memories of his former shame	Y
Crimsoned his cheeks with sudden flame	Y
He said 'I know my fault too well	Z
They fawned upon me and I fell '	-
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Ah 'twas a lovely world no more	J
I met that indisposing bore	J
The unseraphic cynogogue	E
The man who's proud to love a dog	E
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Thus in my dream the golden reign	A2
Of Reason filled the world again	B2
And all mankind confessed her sway	C2
From Walnut Creek to San Jose	C2

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