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BALLADS,
Founded On Anecdotes Relating To Animals,
PREFACE Three words of Horace may form an introduction to the following pages, the very words, which that amiable physician and poet, the late Dr. Cotton of St. Alban's, prefixed as a motto to his elegant and moral little volume of Visions in Verse:
"VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE CANTO."
Or in plainer English prose:--The book is intended for young Readers.
BALLADS.
THE DOG.
BALLAD THE FIRST.
Of all the speechless friends of man The faithful dog I deem Deserving from the human clan The tenderest esteem:
This feeling creature form'd to love, To watch, and to defend, Was given to man by powers above, A guardian, and a friend!
I sing, of all e'er known to live The truest friend canine; And glory if my verse may give, Brave Fido! it is thine.
A dog of many a sportive trick, Tho' rough and large of limb. Fido would chase the floating stick When Lucy cried, "go swim."
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