<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115903" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Little Dog's Day</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All in the town were still asleep,<br> When the sun came up with a shout and a leap.<br> In the lonely streets unseen by man,<br> A little dog danced. And the day began.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All his life he'd been good, as far as he could,<br>And the poor little beast had done all that he should.<br>But this morning he swore, by Odin and Thor<br>And the Canine Valhalla - he'd stand it no more !</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so his prayer he got granted - to do just what he wanted,<br>Prevented by none, for the space of one day.<br>‘Jam incipiebo,[1] sedere facebo’[2]<br>In dog-Latin he quoth, ‘Euge! sophos! hurray!’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He fought with the he-dogs, and winked at the she-dogs,<br>A thing that had never been heard of before.<br>'For the stigma of gluttony, I care not a button!' he<br>Cried, and ate all he could swallow - and more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He took sinewy lumps from the shins of old frumps,<br>And mangled the errand-boys - when he could get 'em.<br>He shammed furious rabies, and bit all the babies,[3]<br>And followed the cats up the trees, and then ate 'em!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They thought 'twas the devil was holding a revel,<br>And sent for the parson to drive him away;<br>For the town never knew such a hullabaloo<br>As that little dog raised till the end of that day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> When the blood-red sun had gone burning down,<br> And the lights were lit in the little town,<br> Outside, in the gloom of the twilight grey,<br> The little dog died when he'd had his day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rupert+Brooke">Rupert Brooke</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115903" data-title="The Little Dog's Day de Rupert Brooke" data-description="All in the town were still asleep,/ When the sun came up with a shout and a leap./ In the lonely streets unseen by man,/ A little dog danced. And the day began./All his life he'd been good, as far as he could,/And the poor little beast had done al..."></div> </div> </div>

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