A Dog’s Loyalty

Many a good
And useful quality, and virtue, too.
Attachment never to be weaned or changed
By any change of fortune; proof alike
Against unkindness, absence, and neglect;
Fidelity that neither bribe nor threat
Can move or warp; and gratitude for small
And trivial favors lasting as the life,
And glistening even in the dying eye.

Anonymous.
As published in “The Dog’s Book of Verse” Collected by J. Earl Clauson
A Public Domain Work.