<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=556005" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>His Old Dog</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His old dog now in her long rest her lot will be ours one day<br>In her grave by the apple tree in his backyard her bones forever lay<br>She passed on a few years ago with sadness he recall<br>The clock of life keeps ticking on and time takes care of us all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His old dog a black and white border collie to him was a true friend<br>Far more devoted than his ex wife she loved him till her end<br>He found her dead in her kennel from a heart attack over-night<br>Though twelve years old she had not shown signs that her end was in sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although he always kept a dog in years and decades past<br>No canine now in his backyard his old bitch was the last<br>Dog for to bark in his back-yard he too feels the weight of time<br>It has been five decades or more since he was in his prime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the rose tree on the old dog's grave red roses are in bloom<br>And the Summer air scents sweetly of Nature's own perfume<br>And no more beautiful place to rest in peace than beside an<br>apple tree<br>In the backyard where you lived your life in your Hometown by the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=556005" data-title="His Old Dog de Francis Duggan" data-description="His old dog now in her long rest her lot will be ours one day In her grave by the apple tree in his backyard her bones forever lay She passed on a few years ago with sadness he recall The clock of life keeps ticking on and time takes care of us al..."></div> </div> </div>

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