Nor Words nor Honours can enough commend The social dog-nay, more-the Faithful Friend. From Nature all his principles he drew :

By nature faithful, vigilant, and true.

His looks and voice his inward thoughts expressed,

He growled in anger, and in love caressed.

No human falsehood lurked beneath his heart: Brave without boasting, gen'rous without art. When Hector's virtues Man, proud Man! displays, Truth shall adorn his tomb with Hector's praise. Unknown.

CXVIII

THE GREYHOUND SNOWBALL

HE, who outbounded time and space,
The fleetest of the greyhound race,
Lies here! At length subdued by death,
His speed now stopped, and out of breath.

Ah! gallant Snowball! what remains
Up Fordan's banks, o'er Flixton's plains,
Of all thy strength-thy sinewy force,
Which rather flew than ran the course?

Ah! what remains? save that thy breed
May to their father's fame succeed;
And when the prize appears in view,
May prove that they are Snowballs too.

Unknown.

CXIX

DOG LATIN

EHEU! hic jacet Crony,
A dog of much renown,
Nec fur, nec macaroni,
Though born and bred in town.

In war he was acerrimus,
In dog-like arts perite,
In love, alas! miserrimus,

For he died of a rival's bite.

His mistress struxit cenotaph ;
And, as the verse comes pat in,
Ego qui scribo epitaph

Indite it in dog Latin.

Unknown.

CXX

ON SOME ELEGIES ON A LAP-DOG

POOR dog, whom rival poets strive
To celebrate in plaintive strains;
If thou hadst howled so when alive,
Thou hadst been beaten for thy pains.
Unknown.

PART IV

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

With eye upraised his master's look to scan,
The joy, the solace, and the aid of man ;
The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend,
The only creature faithful to the end.

UNKNOWN.