Dogs

Dogs written by William Henry Davies

From "My Birds", 1933

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When I was once a wandering man,
And walked at midnight, all alone -
A friendly dog, that offered love,
Was threatened with a stone.

'Go, go,' I said, 'and find a man
Who has a home to call his own;
Who, with a luckier hand than mine,
Can find his dog a bone.'

But times are changed, and this pet dog
Knows nothing of a life that's gone -
Of how a dog that offered love
Was threatened with a stone.

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