A Word for the DumbChristina RossettiPity 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?