<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116804" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Near this spot<br>Are deposited the Remains of one<br>Who possessed Beauty without Vanity,<br>Strength without Insolence,<br>Courage without Ferocity,<br>And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices.<br>This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery<br>If inscribed over human ashes,<br>Is but a just tribute to the Memory of a<br>"Boatswain," a Dog<br>Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803,<br>And died at Newstead Abbey, Nov. 18, 1808.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When some proud son of man returns to earth,<br>Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth,<br>The sculptor’s art exhausts the pomp of woe<br>And storied urns record who rest below:<br>When all is done, upon the tomb is seen,<br>Not what he was, but what he should have been:<br>But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend,<br>The first to welcome, foremost to defend,<br>Whose honest heart is still his master’s own,<br>Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone,<br>Unhonour’d falls, unnoticed all his worth—<br>Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth:<br>While Man, vain insect! hopes to be forgiven,<br>And claims himself a sole exclusive Heaven.<br>Oh Man! thou feeble tenant of an hour,<br>Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power,<br>Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust,<br>Degraded mass of animated dust!<br>Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat,<br>Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy words deceit!<br>By nature vile, ennobled but by name,<br>Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame.<br>Ye! who perchance behold this simple urn,<br>Pass on—it honours none you wish to mourn:<br>To mark a Friend’s remains these stones arise;<br>I never knew but one,—and here he lies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</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=116804" data-title="Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog de Byron" data-description="[Near this spot/Are deposited the Remains of one/Who possessed Beauty without Vanity,/Strength without Insolence,/Courage without Ferocity,/And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices./This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery/If inscribed o..."></div> </div> </div>

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