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XXIV.

FIDELITY.



A barking sound the Shepherd hears,
A cry as of a Dog or Fox;
He halts, and searches with his eyes
Among the scattered rocks:
And now at distance can discern
A stirring in a brake of fern;
And instantly a Dog is seen,
Glancing from that covert green.


The Dog is not of mountain breed;
Its motions, too, are wild and shy;
With something, as the Shepherd thinks,

Unusual in its cry: