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The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti | ||
A Word for the Dumb.
Pity the sorrows of a poor old DogWho wags his tail a-begging in his need:
Despise not even the sorrows of a Frog,
God's creature too, and that's enough to plead:
Spare Puss who trusts us purring on our hearth:
Spare Bunny once so frisky and so free:
Spare all the harmless tenants of the earth:
Spare, and be spared:—or who shall plead for thee?
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