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Title: An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott

Release date: November 19, 2005 [eBook #17102]
Most recently updated: December 13, 2020

Language: English

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Cover

The
Mad Dog

ONE OF
R. CALDECOTT'S
PICTURE BOOKS

Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd.

An ELEGY
on the DEATH of
a MAD DOG.

WRITTEN
By
Dr Goldsmith

 

PICTURED
By
R. Caldecott

SUNG
By Master
Bill Primrose


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Good people all, of every sort,
Give ear unto my song;
And if you find it wondrous short,
It cannot hold you long.
In Islington there lived a man,
Of whom the world might say,
That still a godly race he ran,
Whene'er he went
to pray.
A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he clad,
When he put on
his clothes
And in that town a dog was found:
As many dogs there be—

Both mongrel,

puppy,

whelp,


and hound,

And curs of low degree.
This dog and man at first were friends;
But, when a pique began,
The dog, to gain some private ends,
Went mad, and bit the man.
Around from all
the neighbouring streets
The wondering neighbours ran;
And swore the dog had lost his wits,
To bite so good a man.
The wound it seem'd both sore and sad
To every christian eye;
And while they swore the dog was mad,
They swore the man would die
But soon a wonder came to light,
That show'd the rogues they lied—
The man recover'd of the bite;
The dog it was that died.

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