<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361242" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At The Sheep-Dog Trials</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What ancestors unite<br>Here in this red and white<br>Kelpie to define<br>His symmetry of line,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As crouched in burning dust<br>He halts both Time and beast?<br>The wethers stamp the ground,<br>At his will turn around.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is of collie stock:<br>Austerity of rock<br>Has lent his mind and bone<br>The toughness of its stone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And though for Border flocks<br>The collie and the fox<br>Fought tooth to tooth, they joined<br>And have the kelpie coined</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whose ears acutely set<br>Across the centuries yet<br>Hear the concordant sound<br>Of coupled horn and hound;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as the moon the tides<br>The hidden vixen guides<br>With craft the blood that strains<br>And surges in his veins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those who stand and stare<br>At cripples in the fair<br>Have not the eyes to see<br>His blood's dignity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where old adversaries meet,<br>As now on velvet feet<br>He moves to his master's call,<br>In action classical.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Campbell">David Campbell</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=361242" data-title="At The Sheep-Dog Trials de David Campbell" data-description="What ancestors unite Here in this red and white Kelpie to define His symmetry of line, As crouched in burning dust He halts both Time and beast? The wethers stamp the ground, At his will turn around. He is of collie stock: Austerity of rock Has ..."></div> </div> </div>

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