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The Dog and the Mirror—A Fable,

BY J. P. M’CORD.

 

Wuen Ann appear’d, with brush and broom,

To clean and whiten o’er the room,

She first removed, with thoughtful care,

Whate’er her hand could find to bear:

She stood the mirror in the hall,

- Aslope against the stately wall.

‘As all the doogg,were open flung,

T'o catch the zephyrs as they sprung,

The dog, who never thought it sin

To steal a morsel, wander’d in,

In hopes to fiud some choicer fare

Than vulgar dogs are used to share.

Around from this to that he goes,

To try their nature with his nose;

Till, chancing near its front to pass,

He sees his ianage ia the glass.

As, startled at the sight, he stares,

The figure back upon bim glares;

With him it moves, with him it scowls,

Shows teeth for teeth, and at him growls.

His lofty spirit scorns to brook

That saucy, fierce, defiant look;

Ele swells with rage, he burns to dart

Just vengeance through the culprit’s heart,
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