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I made a journey o'er the sea	A
I bade my faithful dog good bye	B
I knew that he would grieve for me	A
But did not dream that he would die	B
And how could I explain	C
That I would come again	D
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At first he mourned as dogs will mourn	E
A life long master they adore	F
Till in his mind the fear was born	E
That he should never see me more	F
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Ah then on every boat intent	G
He watched the crowd upon the pier	H
While every look and motion meant	G
Will he not come Is he not here	I
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At last he merely raised his head	J
To see the steamers passing by	B
Then sank again upon his bed	J
And heaved a long drawn plaintive sigh	B
For how could one explain	C
That I would come again	D
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I hastened back by sea and land	K
Forced homeward by remorse and fear	H
But no glad barking swept the strand	K
Nor did he meet me on the pier	H
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I climbed the steps with footsteps fleet	L
And then beheld him near the wall	M
Though tottering still upon his feet	L
And creeping toward me down the hall	M
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No wish had he to sulk or blame	N
Nor did he need to understand	K
But simply loved me just the same	N
In silence licking face and hand	K
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In silence What could this portend	O
Such muteness he had never shown	P
Was he so very near the end	O
Ah Leo had I only known	P
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For his grand eyes so large and bright	Q
Though turned through sound my form to find	R
Were totally devoid of sight	Q
He faced me in the darkness blind	R
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What could such gloom have been to him	S
As weeks and months had crept away	T
While all the outer world grew dim	S
Till endless night eclipsed the day	T
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What had it meant to him to wake	U
And mid familiar things to grope	V
To hear old sounds on shore and lake	U
Yet wander darkly without hope	V
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But now his head upon my knee	A
He tried in various ways to show	W
That though my face he could not see	A
He knew the voice of long ago	W
Yes now it was quite plain	C
That I had come again	D
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Within my arms he breathed his last	X
In my embrace his noble head	J
Drooped back and left to me the Past	X
With tender memories of the dead	J
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He lies beneath the stately trees	Y
Whose ample shade he loved the best	Z
Mid flowers whose perfume every breeze	Y
Wafts lightly o'er his place of rest	Z
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Yet somehow still I watch and wait	A2
For him as he once watched for me	A
At every footstep near my gate	A2
I look his bounding form to see	A
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Good night Good bye for I must leave thee	A
My boat is waiting on the shore	F
May I not hope that it will grieve thee	A
When thou shalt see me here no more	F
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Such thoughts I know to day are flouted	B2
Have statues souls the cynic sneers	C2
But I am happier to have doubted	B2
And loved thee thus these many years	C2
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Behind the form is the ideal	D2
Forever high forever true	E2
Behind the false exists the real	D2
Known only to the favored few	E2
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Not all can hear the music stealing	F2
From out that lightly lifted flute	G2
To those devoid of kindred feeling	F2
Its melody is always mute	G2
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But thou to me hast been a token	H2
Of classic legend wrought in stone	P
In thee the thread of Art unbroken	H2
Made all the storied past mine own	P
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And I have felt still brooding o'er thee	A
The old time Genius of the Place	I2
Aware of those who still adore thee	A
Unchanged by time or creed or race	I2
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Through thee came also inspiration	H2
For many a rare poetic thought	J2
And oh how much of resignation	H2
Thy sweet unchanging smile hath taught	J2
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Though thine own past hath had its sorrow	W
Though all thy sylvan friends have fled	J
Thou still canst smile at every morrow	W
For Nature lives though Pan is dead	J
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Thou didst not grieve with futile wailing	F2
When altars crumbled far and near	H
When gods were scoffed and faith was failing	F2
And worship lessened year by year	H
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Above thee still rose lofty mountains	K2
Before thee lay the lake divine	L2
Around thee sang the crystal fountains	K2
With all these treasures why repine	L2
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Religions changed and shrines were banished	M2
Years slipped away men came and went	G
But thou whatever pleasures vanished	M2
With what thou hadst wast still content	G
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Not thine our fatal strain of sadness	N2
As cherished fancies fade away	T
For thee the simple soul of gladness	N2
The careless rapture of to day	T
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Farewell within my heart abiding	F2
I hear thy music gentle Faun	L2
The wounds of disillusion hiding	F2
The prelude to a happier dawn	L2

John L. Stoddard

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