<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413452" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Dog's Tale for M' lady Ernestine</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A dog’s tale</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A small dog shows his loyalty<br> he sleeps beside his master grave.<br>By his own choice he is quite free<br> to seek the home he does not have.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He leaves his post by morning light <br>and sallies forth in search of food.<br>Where he is greeted with delight<br> by children from the neighbourhood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Polite and friendly he’ll accept <br>what ever scraps may come his way.<br>The people know by night he slept<br> beside his masters grave, he lay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This duty although self imposed<br> he carried out until he died<br>Though no one at that time supposed <br>his fame would spread, become world wide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Granted freedom of the city<br>by order of the Lord Provost.<br>A reward for his constancy<br>an honour very few can boast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Epitome of loyalty<br> this small dog earned his world wide fame.<br>By keeping vigil faithfully.<br>Grey Friars Bobby was his name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His statue stands for all to see.<br>Today keeps vigil in his stead<br> but Bobby has gone hopefully<br>to lie beside his master’s bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tourists come from far and wide<br> to view his statue and to see<br>the place where Bobby lived and died<br> in Greyfriars cemetery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">27-Jan-08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=413452" data-title="A Dog's Tale for M' lady Ernestine de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="A dog’s tale A small dog shows his loyalty he sleeps beside his master grave. By his own choice he is quite free to seek the home he does not have. He leaves his post by morning light and sallies forth in search of food. Where he is greete..."></div> </div> </div>

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