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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOST, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poet's Biography
First Line: In the grey wilderness - a dog!
Last Line: To home, chase out that look: 'I'm lost!'?
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs
First Line: In the grey wilderness - a dog!
Last Line: To home, chase out that look: 'I'm lost!'?
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs
IN the grey wilderness -- a dog!
Where are his friends -- the scents he knew?
Who owned him, fed him, as he grew
From pup to shadow lost in fog?
His little world has thinned away;
He runs -- a phantom; Fate will drive
Him up street, down street, all the day
And then at night no shelter give.
The trail is vapoured, gone the sense
Of human refuge; run and run,
'Tis all he can, not knowing where
Or whither -- run, and sniff, and shun!
In the grey wilderness -- a ghost,
A thin, brown, helpless ghost astray!
Can no one stay him, show the way
To home, chase out that look: 'I'm lost!'?
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