Toby

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Hey, Toby, Toby, Toby!—Dead?
  The silence is a flood
  That closes, choking, overhead,
  And chills the living blood.

  The leaping friend, whose jolly bark
  Was greeting every night,
  No more to thrill the summer dark
  With welcome of delight?

  Beside his grave I bend the knee,
  And O, my eyes are dim.
  He hunted for the dog in me:
  I found the man in him.

© John Le Gay Brereton