Bayard Taylor.
SYMPATHY FOR HORSE AND HOUND.
Yet pity for a horse o'erdriven,
And love in which my hound has part,
Can hang no weight upon my heart,
In its assumptions up to heaven:
And I am so much more than these
As thou, perchance, art more than I,
And yet I would spare them sympathy,
And I would set their pains at ease.
Tennyson's In Memoriam.