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Of dogs who sav'd a living friend	A
Most nobly ye have read	B
Now to a nobler still attend	A
A guardian of the dead	B
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As o'er wild Alpine scenes I stray'd	C
Not far from that retreat	D
Where Bruno with celestial aid	C
First plann'd his sacred seat	D
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An anchorite of noble mien	E
Attracted my regard	F
Majestic as that savage scene	E
Or as a Cambrian bard	F
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He to no silent dome belongs	G
The rock is his domain	H
It echoes to his nightly songs	G
Devotion's lonely strain	H
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His mansion is a tranquil grot	F
Form'd in the living stone	I
My view of the sequester'd spot	F
I owe to chance alone	I
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For happening near his cell to rove	J
Enamour'd of the wild	F
I heard within a piny grove	J
What seem'd a plaintive child	F
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The distant cry so struck my ear	K
I hasten'd to the ground	F
But saw surpris'd as I drew near	L
The author of the sound	F
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No human form yet one I thought	F
With human feelings fill'd	F
And from his tongue by nature taught	F
Strange notes of sorrow thrill'd	F
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Unseen myself I clearly saw	M
A dog that couchant moan'd	F
He struck the hard earth with his paw	M
Then look'd at Heaven and groan'd	F
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With silent caution I drew near	L
To mark this friend of man	N
Expressing grief in sobs so clear	L
It through my bosom ran	N
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The noble beast was black as jet	F
And as a lion large	O
He look'd as on a tombstone set	F
To hold the dead in charge	O
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Grand was his visage round his neck	P
Broad silver rings he wore	Q
These rings that his dark body deck	P
The cross of Malta bore	Q
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I gaz'd but soon my steps tho' soft	F
Announced a stranger near	L
The brave beast bounded up aloft	F
Nor was I free from fear	L
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But soon his master's voice represt	F
And call'd him to his side	F
And soon I was the hermit's guest	F
He was my guard and guide	F
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My own intrusion to excuse	R
The wond'rous dog I prais'd	F
Whose milder mien my eye reviews	S
Delighted and amaz'd	F
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If I disturb thy calm retreat	F
Divinely calm indeed	F
The noble servant at thy feet	F
May for my pardon plead	F
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That noble servant in my sight	F
Whom strength and grace adorn	T
Announces if I read aright	F
A master nobly born	T
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The sire replied with graceful bend	F
No not my servant he	U
A noble independent friend	F
He deigns to live with me	U
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But stranger if you kindly rest	F
His story you shall hear	K
And all that makes my sable guest	F
Most singularly dear	L
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Here it has been my chosen lot	F
Some awful years to spend	F
Few months have pass'd since near this spot	F
I gain'd this signal friend	F
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This friend with whom to live and die	F
Is now my dearest aim	V
He likes the world no more than I	F
And Hero is his name	V
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Some two miles off as near a wood	F
Of deepest gloom I stray'd	F
Struck by strange sounds I wond'ring stood	F
They echoed from the shade	F
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First like a noise in troubled dreams	W
But soon distinct I heard	F
A dog's triumphant bark and screams	W
That spoke a dying bird	F
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A bird of loud portentous note	F
One of the vulture race	X
Which shepherds will to death devote	F
In sanguinary chace	X
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I thought some shepherd's joy to share	Y
And hurried to the sound	F
To what I had expected there	Y
Far different scene I found	F
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A man of blood bespotted vest	F
I saw upon the earth	Z
And Malta's cross upon his breast	F
Spoke him of noble birth	Z
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Misfortune long had press'd him sore	Q
I know not how he died	F
He had been dead two days or more	Q
When I his corse descried	F
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Him as their prey two vultures seek	A2
With ravenous rage abhorr'd	F
But Hero guarded from their beak	A2
The visage of his lord	F
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When first my eyes on Hero glanc'd	F
One vulture he had slain	H
The second scar'd as I advanced	F
Flew off in fearful pain	H
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Enchanted with a guard so brave	B2
So faithful to the dead	F
The wounded dog to soothe and save	B2
With beating heart I sped	F
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He lick'd my hand by me carest	F
But him with grief I saw	M
Half famish'd and his gallant breast	F
Gor'd by the vulture's claw	M
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Tho' anxious o'er his wounds I bend	F
By kindness or by force	C2
I could not tempt this generous friend	F
To quit the pallid corse	C2
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The body to my cell I bear	Y
This mourner with it moved	F
Then he submitted to my care	Y
And all my aid approv'd	F
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In the soft stone that's near my cell	D2
I soon entomb'd the dead	F
With stone above I shield him well	D2
And laurels round I spread	F
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Oft to the spot with mournful praise	E2
The mindful Hero springs	F2
And in such notes as he can raise	E2
A requiem he sings	F2
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Dear faithful dog if man to me	U
Had half thy virtue shewn	H
From social life I should not flee	U
To roam the wild alone	H
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No not alone nor yet in woe	G2
While here thy virtues shine	H
For I defy the world to shew	H2
Associate like to mine	H
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The dog he now press'd to his heart	F
Then utter'd this desire	I2
Stranger if thine a poet's art	F
Let Hero wake thy lyre	J2
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His wish was kind may love so true	H2
Ne'er want its wishes long	K2
Thus from his fond suggestion grew	H2
This tributary song	K2

William Hayley

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