McKenzie was the bravest dog
That you have ever seen
Wiry terrier, Border bred
He was a dog - so keen
To retrieve a ball or catch a stick
He'd go through hedges ten feet thick
He'd leap a wall or jump a fence
And what he did made no sense
To humans born with city fever
But for him-a born retriever
With sense of duty and instincts bred
To leap on roofs or garden shed
To claim his stick or glove or ball
He'd leap a six to eight feet wall
A hundred times he'd jump and try
He'd do it willingly or he'd die
He'd search in thickets full of gorse
And always return with it of course
Barbed wire fences might tear his eyes
But deterred him not as he claimed his prize-
Another throw and a mad foray
Into the world of animal play
I once saw him dive into a water-filled bin
And use his left paw - just like a fin
To scoop the water from the container
In order to see the object plainer
An intelligent dog who has gone away
To a home on a farm or so they say.
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