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A Word for the Dumb
Christina Rossetti

Pity the sorrows of a poor old Dog
 Who wags his tail a-begging in his need:
Despise not even the sorrows of a Frog,
 God's creature too, and that's enough to plead:
Spare Puss who trusts us purring on our hearth:
 Spare Bunny once so frisky and so free:
Spare all the harmless tenants of the earth:
 Spare, and be spared:—or who shall plead for thee?

Editor: Jim Bender
Last modified: Monday, August 13th, 2007
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