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No classic warrior tempts my pen	A
To fill with verse these pages	B
No lordly hearted man of men	A
My Muse's thought engages	C
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Let others choose the mighty dead	D
And sing their battles over	E
My champion too has fought and bled	D
My theme is one eyed Rover	E
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A grave old dog with tattered ears	F
Too sore to cock up reader	E
A four legged hero full of years	F
But sturdy as a cedar	E
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Still age is age and if my rhyme	G
Is dashed with words pathetic	H
Don't wonder friend I've seen the time	G
When Rove was more athletic	H
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He lies coiled up before me now	I
A comfortable crescent	J
His night black nose and grizzled brow	I
Fixed in a fashion pleasant	J
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But ever and anon he lifts	K
The one good eye I mention	L
And tries a thousand doggish shifts	K
To rivet my attention	L
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Just let me name his name and up	M
You'll see him start and patter	E
Towards me like a six months' pup	M
In point of speed but fatter	E
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He pokes his head upon my lap	N
Nor heeds the whip above him	O
Because he knows the dear old chap	N
His human friends all love him	O
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Our younger dogs cut off from hence	P
At sight of lash uplifted	Q
But Rove with grand indifference	R
Remains and can't be shifted	S
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And ah the set upon his phiz	R
At meals defies expression	L
For I confess that Rover is	R
A cadger by profession	L
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The lesser favourites of the place	R
At dinner keep their distance	R
But by my chair one grizzled face	R
Begs on with brave persistence	R
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His jaws present a toothless sight	T
But still my hearty hero	U
Can satisfy an appetite	T
Which brings a bone to zero	U
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And while Spot barks and pussy mews	R
To move the cook's compassion	L
He takes his after dinner snooze	R
In genuine biped fashion	L
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In fact in this our ancient pet	V
So hits off human nature	E
That I at times almost forget	V
He's but a dog in feature	E
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Between his tail and bright old eye	W
The swift communications	R
Outstrip the messages which fly	W
From telegraphic stations	R
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And ah that tail's rich eloquence	R
Conveys too clear a moral	X
For men who have a grain of sense	R
About its drift to quarrel	X
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At night his voice is only heard	Y
When it is wanted badly	Z
For Rover is too cute a bird	Y
To follow shadows madly	Z
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The pup and Carlo in the dark	A2
Will start at crickets chirring	A2
But when we hear the old dog bark	A2
We know there's something stirring	A2
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He knows a gun does Rover here	B2
And if I cock a trigger	E
He makes himself from tail to ear	B2
An admirable figure	E
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For once the fowling piece is out	C2
And game is on the tapis	R
The set upon my hero's snout	C2
Would make a cockle happy	Z
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And as for horses why betwixt	D2
Our chestnut mare and Rover	E
The mutual friendship is as fixed	D2
As any love of lover	E
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And when his master's hand resigns	R
The bridle for the paddle	X
His dogship on the grass reclines	R
And stays and minds the saddle	X
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Of other friends he has no lack	A2
Grey pussy is his crony	Z
And kittens mount upon his back	A2
As youngsters mount a pony	Z
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They talk of man's superior sense	R
And charge the few with treason	L
Who think a dog's intelligence	R
Is very like our reason	L
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But though Philosophy has tried	E2
A score of definitions	R
'Twixt man and dog it can't decide	E2
The relative positions	R
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And I believe upon the whole	F2
Though you my creed deny sir	E
That Rove's entitled to a soul	F2
As much as you or I sir	E
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Indeed I fail to see the force	R
Of your derisive laughter	E
Because I will not say my horse	R
Has not some horse hereafter	E
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A fig for dogmas let them pass	R
There's much in life to grieve us	R
And what most grieves is this alas	R
That all our best friends leave us	R
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And when I sip my nightly grog	A2
And watch old Rover blinking	A2
This royal ruin of a dog	A2
Calls forth some serious thinking	A2
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For though he's lightly touched by Fate	G2
I cannot help remarking	A2
The step of age is in his gait	G2
Its hoarseness in his barking	A2
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He still goes on his rounds at night	T
To keep off forest prowlers	R
But ah he has no teeth to bite	T
The cunning hearted howlers	R
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Not like the Rover that erewhile	F2
Gave droves of dingoes battle	F2
And dashed through flood and fierce defile	F2
The friend but dread of cattle	F2
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Not like to him that in past years	R
Won fight by fight and scattered	Y
Whole tribes of dogs with rags of ears	R
And tail ends torn and tattered	Y
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But while time tells upon our pet	V
And makes him greyer daily	F2
He is a noble fellow yet	V
And wears his old age gaily	F2
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Still dogs must die and in the end	H2
When he is past caressing	A2
We'll mourn him like some human friend	H2
Whose presence was a blessing	A2
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Till then be bread and peace his lot	I2
A life of calm and clover	E
The pup may sleep outside with Spot	I2
We'll keep the nook for Rover	E

Henry Kendall

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