To Flush, My Dog

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    <strong>To Flush, My Dog</strong>

    Loving friend, the gift of one

    Who her own true faith has run

    Through thy lower nature,

    Be my beion said

    With my hand upon thy head,

    Gentle fellow-creature!

    Like a ladys ris brown,

    Flow thy silken ears adown

    Either side demurely

    Of thy silver-suited breast

    Shining out from all the rest

    Of thy body purely.

    Darkly brown thy body is,

    Till the sunshiriking this

    Alchemise its dullness,

    When the sleek curls manifold

    Flash all over into gold

    With a burnished fulness.

    Underh my stroking hand,

    Startled eyes of hazel bland

    Kindling, growing larger,

    Up thou leapest with a spring,

    Full of prank and curveting,

    Leaping like a charger.

    Leap! thy broad tail waves a light,

    Leap! thy slender feet are bright,

    opied in fringes;

    Leap! those tasselled ears of thine

    Flicker strangely, fair and fine

    Down their golden inches

    Yet, my pretty, sportive friend,

    Little ist to su end

    That I praise thy rareness;

    s may be thy peers

    Haply in these drooping ears

    And this glossy fairness.

    But of thee it shall be said,

    This dog watched beside a bed

    Day and night unweary,

    Watched within a curtained room

    Where no sunbeam brake the gloom

    Round the sid drea<bdi></bdi>ry.

    Ro<df</dfn>ses, gathered for a vase,

    In that chamber died apace,

    Beam and breeze resigning;

    This dog only, waited on,

    Knowing that when light is gone

    Love remains for shining.

    s in thymy dew

    Tracked the hares and followed through

    Sunny moor or meadow;

    This dog only, crept and crept

    a languid cheek that slept,

    Sharing in the shadow.

    s of loyal cheer

    Bou the whistle clear,

    Up the woodside hieing;

    This dog only, watched in reach

    Of a faintly uttered speech

    Or a lhing.

    And if one or two quick tears

    Dropped upon his glossy e<bdi>?</bdi>ars

    Or a sigh came double,

    Up he sprang in eager haste,

    Fawning, fondling, breathing fast,

    In a terouble.

    And this dog was satisfied

    If a pale thin hand would glide

    Down his des sloping, --

    Which he pushed his hin,

    After, -- p<bdo></bdo>latf his

    On the palm left open.

    This dog, if a friendly voice

    Call him now to blither choice

    Than such chamber-keeping,

    e out! praying from the door, --

    Presseth backward as before,

    Up against me leaping.

    Therefore to this dog will I,

    Tenderly not sfully,

    Render praise and favor:

    With my hand upon his head,

    Is my beion said

    Therefore and for ever.

    And because he loves me so,

    Better than his kind will do

    Often man or woman,

    Give I back more love again

    Than dogs often take of men,

    Leaning from my Human.

    Blessings on thee, dog of mine,

    Pretty collars make thee fine,

    Sugared milk make fat thee!

    Pleasures wag on in thy tail,

    Hands of geion fail

    Nevermore, to pat thee

    Downy pillow take thy head,

    Silken coverlid bestead,

    Sunshihy sleeping!

    No flys buzzing wake thee up,

    No mahy purple cup

    Set for drinking deep in.

    Whiskered cats arointed flee,

    Sturdy stoppers keep from thee

    Cologne distillations;

    Nuts lie in thy path for stones,

    And thy feast-day macaroons

    Turn to daily rations!

    Mock I thee, in wishing weal? --

    Tears are in my eyes to feel

    Thou art made so straitly,

    Blessing needs must straiten too, --

    Little st thou joy or do,

    Thou who lovest greatly.

    Yet be blessed to the height

    Of all good and all delight

    Pervious t<dfn></dfn>o thy nature;

    Only loved beyond that line,

    With a love that ahine,

    Loving fellow-creature!

    <strong>Elizabeth Barrett Browning</strong>

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