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A HERO NEWFOUNDLAND DOG RESTS HERE
He's gone! the friend of many years,
'Neath Greenwood's sod he lies;
Worth was he of all our tears
As when a human being dies.
His name was "Gipsy"; and his race
Though not of men, was pure and true;
His soul was pictured in his face,
And he could love and reason too.
No more upon the chimney hearth;
His crouching form we see;
He moulders now beneath the earth
But he's not dead to me.
He's gone! this faithful, darling friend,
Where truth and virtue dwell;
Say not that this shall be the end
of him we loved so well.
Henry Bergh (1879)
Founder of the ASPCA
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