Nature
Impromptu on an Order to Rill the Dogs in Albany
From The Poets and Poetry of America (1855)
Nature
'Tis done! the dreadful sentence is decreed!
The town is mad, and all the dogs must bleed!
Ah me! what boots it that the dogs are slain,
Since the whole race of puppies yet remain!
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MLA
Honeywood, St. John. “Impromptu on an Order to Rill the Dogs in Albany.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/honeywood/3/.
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Honeywood, St. John. “Impromptu on an Order to Rill the Dogs in Albany.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/honeywood/3/.
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