Daily Archives: November 21, 2009

Angels and Platonists Shall Judge the Dog

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Video posted to YouTube by TekinTahsin.

Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers.

Let Freud and Wordsworth discuss the child,

Angels and Platonists shall judge the dog,

The running dog, who paused, distending nostrils . . . 

Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers by Delmore Schwartz in Selected Poems (1938 – 1958): Summer Knowledge

I have never known a dog who didn’t have some talent.  I must admit though, this is rather special. The real thing about dogs however is their loyalty and unconditional love. The rest is icing. They are the most nearly perfect creatures, and I miss the patter of paws around the house.

FRIENDS AT FIRST SIGHT: An Orangutang and the Hound

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Video posted to YouTube by National Geographic.

Though friendships differ endless in degree ,

The sorts, methinks, may be reduced to three.

Ac quantance many, and Con quantance few;

But for In quantance I know only two –

The friend I’ve mourned with, and the maid I woo!

The Three Sorts of Friends by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Another animal story in the spirit of The Peaceable Kingdom. If them, why not us?

Thanks to dear Ann for sharing this and all her wonderful poetry.