<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540811" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>First The Dog</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">to Laika</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>So first the faithful dog will go <br>and after it a pig or ass <br>through the black grass will beat a track <br>along it will the first man steal <br>who with iron hand will smother <br>on his glass brow a drop of fear </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>so first the dog honest mongrel <br>which has never abandoned us <br>dreaming of earthly lamps and bones <br>will fall asleep in its whirling kennel <br>its warm blood boiling drying away </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>but we behind the dog and second <br>dog which guides us on a leash <br>we with the astronauts’ white cane <br>awkwardly we bump into stars <br>we see nothing we hear nothing <br>we beat with our fists on the dark ether <br>on all the wavelengths is a whining </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>everything we can carry on board <br>through the cinders of dark worlds <br>name of man scent of apple <br>acorn of sound quarter of colour <br>should all be saved for our return <br>so we can find the route in an instant <br>when the blind dog leading us <br>barks at the earth as at the moon</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Zbigniew+Herbert">Zbigniew Herbert</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=540811" data-title="First The Dog de Zbigniew Herbert" data-description="to Laika So first the faithful dog will go and after it a pig or ass through the black grass will beat a track along it will the first man steal who with iron hand will smother on his glass brow a drop of fear so first the dog honest mon..."></div> </div> </div>

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