{"id":3661,"date":"2017-02-01T20:02:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T12:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2023-05-14T23:12:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T15:12:14","slug":"the-power-of-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/?p=3661","title":{"rendered":"The Power of the Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rudyard Kipling\u00a0(1865\u20131936).\u00a0\u00a0Verse: 1885\u20131918.\u00a0\u00a01922.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cThe Power of the Dog\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>THERE is sorrow enough in the natural way<br \/>From men and women to fill our day;<br \/>And when we are certain of sorrow in store,<br \/>Why do we always arrange for more?<br \/>Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware<br \/>Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>Buy a pup and your money will buy<br \/>Love unflinching that cannot lie\u2014<br \/>Perfect passion and worship fed<br \/>By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.<br \/>Nevertheless it is hardly fair<br \/>To risk your heart for a dog to tear.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>When the fourteen years which Nature permits<br \/>Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,<br \/>And the vet\u2019s unspoken prescription runs<br \/>To lethal chambers or loaded guns,<br \/>Then you will find\u2014it\u2019s your own affair\u2014<br \/>But \u2026 you\u2019ve given your heart to a dog to tear.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>When the body that lived at your single will,<br \/>With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!).<br \/>When the spirit that answered your every mood<br \/>Is gone\u2014wherever it goes\u2014for good,<br \/>You will discover how much you care,<br \/>And will give your heart to a dog to tear.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>We\u2019ve sorrow enough in the natural way,<br \/>When it comes to burying Christian clay.<br \/>Our loves are not given, but only lent,<br \/>At compound interest of cent per cent.<br \/>Though it is not always the case, I believe,<br \/>That the longer we\u2019ve kept \u2019em, the more do we grieve:<br \/>For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,<br \/>A short-time loan is as bad as a long\u2014<br \/>So why in\u2014Heaven (before we are there)<br \/>Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?<br \/><img src='https:\/\/damakey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1151998218_x.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudyard Kipling\u00a0(1865\u20131936).\u00a0\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8766,"href":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/8766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damakey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}