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THE DOG by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE DOG WAS THERE, OUTSIDE HER DOOR
Last Line: TO OPEN THEM FOR HER!
Subject(s): ANIMALS; DOGS;

THE dog was there, outside her door,
She gave it food and drink,
She gave it shelter from the cold:
It was the night young Molly robbed
An old fool of his gold.

"Molly," I said, "you'll go to hell -- "
And yet I half believed
That ugly, famished, tottering cur
Would bark outside the gates of Heaven,
To open them for Her!



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