<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369981" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dogged Days</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A country-dog has chanced to find<br>A plantain-leaf with left-o’er food; <br>Oh, what a stroke of luck this day! <br>It rolls over the ground with joy<br>And rips the packet open fast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some bits of chicken-bones with flesh<br>Amidst some biriyani rice –<br>That smells quite good but could be stale, <br>Yet tempting to the dog’s taste-buds! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The food lies scattered on the ground<br>With mud and pebbles, paper too; <br>A hungry dog is blind to these, <br>And eats the food in hurried way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">God only knows what things have slipped<br>Past throat, along with food it took; <br>Its hunger-pangs abated now, <br>The dog basks in the sun and sleeps! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But death could come soon anytime; <br>Just lucky, ’tis alive today! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Think of the human beings too, <br>Who lead a dogged-life these days –<br>Without a proper meal a day<br>Or clothes to wear or place to rest! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The God of love who made us all<br>Is watching how we treat brethren; <br>We talk so big but do little<br>To help the most unfortunate souls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No land can call itself blessed; <br>No people can call themselves great, <br>While famished, ravished souls exist, <br>And people live in slums like dogs! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright by Dr John Celes 2-8-2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</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=369981" data-title="Dogged Days de John Celes" data-description="A country-dog has chanced to find A plantain-leaf with left-o’er food; Oh, what a stroke of luck this day! It rolls over the ground with joy And rips the packet open fast. Some bits of chicken-bones with flesh Amidst some biriyani rice – Th..."></div> </div> </div>

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