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I	A
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Strike not thy dog with a stick	B
I did it yesterday	C
Not to undo though I gained	D
The Paradise heavy it rained	D
On Kobold's flanks and he lay	C
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II	A
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Little Bruno our long ear pup	E
From his hunt had come back to my heel	F
I heard a sharp worrying sound	G
And Bruno foamed on the ground	G
With Koby as making a meal	F
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III	A
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I did what I could not undo	H
Were the gates of the Paradise shut	I
Behind me I deemed it was just	J
I left Koby crouched in the dust	J
Some yards from the woodman's hut	I
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IV	-
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He bewhimpered his welting and I	A
Scarce thought it enough for him so	K
By degrees through the upper box grove	-
Within me an old story hove	-
Of a man and a dog you shall know	K
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V	-
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The dog was of novel breed	L
The Shannon retriever untried	M
His master an old Irish lord	N
In an oaken armchair snored	N
At midnight whisky beside	N
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VI	A
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Perched up a desolate tower	O
Where the black storm wind was a whip	P
To set it nigh spinning these two	H
Were alone like the last of a crew	H
Outworn in a wave beaten ship	P
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VII	A
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The dog lifted muzzle and sniffed	N
He quitted his couch on the rug	Q
Nose to floor nose aloft whined barked	N
And finding the signals unmarked	N
Caught a hand in a death grapple tug	Q
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VIII	A
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He pulled till his master jumped	N
For fury of wrath and laid on	R
With the length of a tough knotted staff	A
Fit to drive the life flying like chaff	A
And leave a sheer carcase anon	R
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IX	K
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That done he sat panted and cursed	N
The vile cross of this brute nevermore	S
Would he house it to rear such a cur	O
The dog dragged his legs pained to stir	O
Eyed his master dropped barked at the door	S
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X	K
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Then his master raised head too and sniffed	N
It struck him the dog had a sense	K
That honoured both dam and sire	O
You have guessed how the tower was afire	T
The Shannon retriever dates thence	K
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XI	K
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I mused saw the pup ease his heart	N
Of his instinct for chasing and sink	U
Overwrought by excitement so new	R
A scene that for Koby to view	R
Was the seizure of nerves in a link	U
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XII	K
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And part sympathetic and part	N
Imitatively raged my poor brute	N
And I not thinking of ill	V
Doing eviller nerves are still	V
Our savage too quick at the root	N
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XIII	K
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They spring us I proved it albeit	N
I played executioner then	R
For discipline justice the like	W
Yon stick I had handy to strike	W
Should have warned of the tyrant in men	R
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XIV	R
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You read in your History books	K
How the Prince in his youth had a mind	N
For governing gently his land	N
Ah the use of that weapon at hand	N
When the temper is other than kind	N
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XV	R
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At home all was well Koby's ribs	K
Not so sore as my thoughts if beguiled	N
He forgives me his criminal air	X
Throws a shade of Llewellyn's despair	X
For the hound slain for saving his child	N

George Meredith

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