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この世の中では親友でさえ、あなたを裏切り、敵となる事がある。

愛情をかけて育てた我が子も深い親の愛をすっかり忘れてしまうかもしれない。

あなたが心から信頼している最も身近な愛する人もその忠節を翻すかもしれない。

富はいつか失われるかも知れない。

最も必要とする時に、あなたの手にあるとは限らない。

名声はたった一つの思慮に欠けた行為によって瞬時に地に堕ちてしまうこともあるだろう。

成功に輝いてるときは、ひざまずいて敬ってくれたものが失敗の暗雲があなたの頭上をくもらせた途端に

豹変し、悪意の石つぶてをなげつけるかもしれない。

こんな利己的な世の中で決して裏切らない

恩知らずでも不誠実でもない

絶対不変の唯一の友はあなたの犬なのだ。

あなたの犬は、富める時も貧しき時も

健やかなる時も病める時も常にあなたを助ける。

冷たい風が吹きつけ、雪が激しく降る時も

主人のそばならば冷たい土の上でも眠るだろう。

与えるべき食物が何一つなくても、手を差し伸べれば

キスしてくれ世間の荒波にもまれた傷や痛手を優しく舐めてくれるだろう。

犬は貧しい民の眠りを、まるで王子の眠りのごとく守ってくれる。

友が一人残らずあなたを見捨てて立ち去っても、犬は見捨てはしない。

富を失い名誉が地に堕ちても、いぬはあたかも日々天空を旅する太陽のごとく、変わることなくあなたを愛する。

たとえ運命の力で友も住む家もない地の果てへ追いやられても

忠実な犬は共にある事以外何も望まず、あなたを危険から守り敵と戦う。

すべての終わりがきて、死があなたを抱き取り骸が冷たい土の下に葬られる時

その目は悲しみにくもりながらも、油断なく辺りを見まわし

死者に対してさえも、忠実さと真実に満ちている。

Photo : Pythagoreans' Hymn to the Rising Sun
Fedor Andreevich Bronnikov

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The Sacred Song
The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy.
His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful.Those who are nearest and dearest to us,
those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith.
The money that a man has, he may lose.
It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most.
A man's reputation may be sacrifices in a moment of ill-considered action.
The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor　when sucess is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its clouds upon our heads.
The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world,the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.
Gentlemen of the jury, a man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness.
He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely,if only he may be near his master's side.
He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer.
He will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world.
He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince.
When all other friends desert, he remains.
When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.
If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless,the faithful dog asks no higher privlege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger,to fight against his enemies,
and when the last scene of all comes and death takes the master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground,no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found,his head between his paws,
his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death.

　　　　Author Unknown

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