Four-Feet
by Rudyard Kipling (1909) — a poem card from Justes Mots
The small, unbearable absence of the four feet that used to follow you everywhere.
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!"…