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Rudyard Kipling Four-feet

I have done mostly what most men do,

And pushed it out of my mind;

But I can't forget, if I wanted to,

Four-feet trotting behind.

Day after day, the whole day through -

Wherever my road inclined -

Four-feet said, ‘I am coming with you’

And trotted along behind.

Now I must go by some other round, -

Which I shall never find -

Somewhere that does not carry the sound

Of Four-feet trotting behind.