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Feris Dream

I Had a little dog, and my dog was very small;

He licked me in the face, and he answered to my call;

Of all the treasures that were mine,

I loved him most of all.

His nose was fresh as morning dew and blacker than the night;

I thought that it could even snuff the shadows and the light;

And his tail he held bravely, like a banner in a fight.

His body covered thick with hair was very good to smell ;

His little stomach underneath was pink as any shell;

And I loved him and honoured him, more than words can tell.

We ran out in the morning, both of us, to play,

Up and down across the fields for all the sunny day ;

But he ran so swiftly--he ran right away.

I looked for him,

I called for him, entreatingly.

Alas,

The dandelions could not speak, though they had seen him pass,

And nowhere was his waving tail among the waving grass.

The sun sank low.

I ran;

I prayed: ' If God has not the

To find him, let me die.

I cannot bear another hour.'When suddenly I came upon a great yellow flower.

And all among its petals, such was Heaven's grace,

In that golden hour, in that golden place,

All among its petals, was his hairy face.

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Frances Darwin Cornford

Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin; 30 March 1886 – 19 August 1960) was an English poet; because of the similarity of her first name, her fathe…

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