A POPULAR PERSONAGE AT HOME
I live here ; “Wessex” is my name ; I am a dog known rather well ; I guard the house ; but how that came To be my whim I cannot tell. With a leap and a heart elate I go At the end of an hour’s expectancy To take a walk of a mile or so With the folk I let live here with me. Along the path, amid the grass I sniff, and find out rarest smells For rolling over as I pass The open fields towards the dells. No doubt I shall always cross this sill And turn the corner and stand steady, Gazing back for my mistress till She reaches where I have run already. And that this meadow with its brook, And bulrush, even as it appears As I plunge by with hasty look, Will stay the same a thousand years. Thomas Hardy.
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Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 4, 30 October 1931, Page 9
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150A POPULAR PERSONAGE AT HOME Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 4, 30 October 1931, Page 9
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