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Tuesday 19 May 2009

The Rebel Against Dogs


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Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars
With memory of the old revolt from dogs,
He reached a middle height, and at the stars,
Which are the brain of heaven, he looked and sank.
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank,
The army of unalterable paws.





Siberian Dogs in the Snow: Franz Marc, 1909/1910 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

2 comments:

Zephirine said...

I wuff this!

TC/BTP said...

Zeph,

One hopes that Algernon Charles Swinburne would have wuffed it, too!