An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog

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Title: An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott
Release Date: November 19, 2005 [EBook #17102]
Language: English
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The MAD DOG
ONE OF R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOKS
Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd.
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An ELEGY?on the DEATH of?a MAD DOG.
WRITTEN?By?Dr GOLDSMITH
PICTURED?By?R. CALDECOTT
SUNG?By?Master BILL PRIMROSE
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Good people all, of every sort,
Give ear unto my song;
And if you find it wondrous short,
It cannot hold you long.

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In Islington there lived a man,
Of whom the world might say,
That still a godly race he ran,
Whene'er he went to pray.

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A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he clad,
When he put on his clothes
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And in that town a dog was found:
As many dogs there be--
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,