A whole-tail dog, and a half-tail dog, And a dog without a tail, Went all three out on an autumn day To follow a red-fox trail. But the dogs that carried their tails along Fell out, it is said, by the way; And the loss of a tail and a half at the end Of the dogs put an end to the fray. When each, as a morsel sweet, gulped down What had late been a neighbor's pride, "You've kept your tails," laughed the no-tail dog, "But you wear them now @3inside@1." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE OLD STOIC by EMILY JANE BRONTE THE LOST LEADER by ROBERT BROWNING THE COMPLAINT OF CHAUCER TO HIS EMPTY PURSE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER THE COSMIC TRAIL by EDWIN M. ABBOTT CITY AND VILLAGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON |