OUR FRIEND THE DOG 



leave its steel-bound sphere, where 

 death alone establishes cruel rela- 

 tions of cause and effect between 

 neighbouring lives, where not the 

 smallest sympathy has ever made 

 a conscious leap from one species 

 to another, one animal alone, 

 among all that breathes upon the 

 earth, has succeeded in break- 

 ing through the prophetic circle, 

 in escaping from itself to come 

 bounding toward us, definitely to 

 cross the enormous zone of dark- 

 ness, ice and silence that iso- 

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