Sarah

“WITHOUT A DOG

A man may have his share of gold,
Though hard to get, and hard to hold,
May even have a little fame,
Although they soon forget your name,
May even have a little bliss,
The rapture of a faithless kiss,
And yet, the while the world you jog,
Life isn’t much without a dog.

Life gives him friends a-plenty, friends
As many as the coins he spends,
Yet, when he has a trail to go
Up hill, down dale, through rain or snow,
One, only one, will rise and leave
The good red fire, grieve when yoy grieve
Go where you go, the peak, the bog-
Life isn’t much without a dog.

Unless a man can say, “Come, Jack,” ‘
Come Sport or Scotty, life will lack
The only love man ever knew
That would not vanish like the dew,
To evry man must come a day
When he must walk some hurt away,
And, in that hour of doubt, of fog,
Life isn’t much without a dog.
—DOUGLAS MALLOCH”
― Tony Wons, Your Dog and My Dog