LINES ON THE TOMB OF A FAVOURITE DOG. Helen Maria Williams Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Williams, Helen Maria, 1759-1827. Poems on various subjects: with introductory remarks on the present state of science and literature in France. London G. and W. B. Whittaker 1823 pp. [264]-265.

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LINES ON THE TOMB OF A FAVOURITE DOG . HERE rests the image of a friend , — Thine , cherish'd BIBI , thine ! Oft to this spot our steps we'll bend , And call it Friendship's shrine . Through length'ning years' successive flight Thy fondness still had power To shed its narrow line of light On life's domestic hour ; And while for pleasures sought amiss Abroad we vainly roam , How far more dear the slightest bliss That adds one charm to home ! Let those who coldly scorn the tear That soothes the grief we prove , Say , if fidelity be dear , If love has claims to love ; Say , on what hallow'd spot there lives A heart unknown to range , That to one chosen object gives A love no power can change ? Tell , in what tender breast to find Affection half so true ? — Ah , BIBI , who of human kind Has learnt to love like you !