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TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF
THE SAME DOG.

Lie here sequester'd:—be this little moundFor ever thine, and be it holy ground!Lie here, without a record of thy worth,Beneath the covering of the common earth!It is not from unwillingness to praise,Or want of love, that here no Stone we raise;More thou deserv'st; but this Man gives to Man,Brother to Brother, this is all we can.Yet they to whom thy virtues made thee dearShall find thee through all changes of the year:
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