…But of thee it shall be said,This dog watched beside a bedDay and night unweary, –Watched within a curtained room,Where no sunbeam brake the gloomRound the sick and dreary….Downy pillow take thy head,Silken coverlid bestead,Sunshine help thy sleeping !No fly’s buzzing wake thee up –No man break thy purple cup,Set for drinking deep in.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from “To Flush, my Dog“
