On the subject of dogs, I could talk all day. As our First Family welcomes Bo into their home, I would like to share this little poem with them - lest they think they are merely bringing a "creature" into their home. Nay, this is a dog, and a finer being than any other.
So says the poem, "I Think I know No Finer Things Than Dogs," part of Best Loved Poems of the American People , a favorite book of mine. I quote from it here:
I THINK I KNOW NO FINER THINGS THAN DOGS
Though prejudice perhaps my mind befogs,
I think I know no finer things than dogs:
The young ones, they of gay and bounding heart,
Who lure us in their games to take a part,
Who with mock tragedy their antics cloak
And, from their wild eyes' tail, admit the joke;
Sublime the love they bear; but ask to live
Close to our feet, unrecompensed to give;
Beside which man men seem very logs --
I think I know no finer things than dogs.
Hally Carrington Brent