 | The Uncollected Poems of Henry Timrod |  |
APOLOGY TO TOM FOR MALTREATING HIS ‘FRIEND’
If it be true as I have often heard,(And this has prov'd its author has not err'd)
That “fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind,”
We could not wonder that thy heart inclin'd
To aid thy hapless pet and kindred brute.
But Tom forgive us that we scorn'd thy suit,
Hogs may be very pleasant company
But we had one already Tom in thee.
| The Uncollected Poems of Henry Timrod | |