An Old Dog


Now that no shrill hunting horn

Can arouse me at the morn,

Deaf I lie the long day through,

Dreaming firelight dreams of you;

Waiting, patient through it all,

Till the greater Huntsman call.



If we are, as people say,

But the creatures of a day,

Let me live, when we must part,

A little longer in your heart.

You were all the God I knew,

I was faithful unto you.



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