“The Dog, which still was hovering nigh,
Repeating the same timid cry,
This Dog had been through three months’ space,
A dweller in that savage place.
Yes, proof was plain, that since the day
On which the traveller thus had died,
The Dog had watched about the spot,
Or by his master’s side.
How nourished here through such long time,
He knows who gave that love sublime,