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by Ken Pawson
Tucked away in drawers and cases I have bits of souvenirs,
Picked up in many places - In many different years.
Most of them in money are not worth anything.
But the cheapest of all is priceless for the memories it can bring.
For, by far the very dearest, though for money it wouldn't sell,
Is a sledding dog's old harness and his little sledging bell.
If I hold it but for a minute I see once again it would seem
The fine little chap pulling it - 'Yap' - leader of Number One Team.
Now it is quite clean and supple and seldom, if ever gets wet -
But times in the past it was frozen, smelling only of blubber and sweat.
For a brave little heart beat within it. A brave little chest
faced the strain
Of long weary days on the sledge trail, and in memory I see him again.
Only a dog from a sledge trace - in a show ring he'd never be seen,
And yet in my heart he'd taken first place, as he did in Number One
Team.
And whenever life's journeying finds me with a heart that's beginning
to fail -
That faded old harness reminds me - 'Slog on to the end of the trail!'
And when the last lonely ridge is approaching, and the days of this
life but a dream,
I'd be happy to have pull me over - 'Yap', Leader of Number One Team.
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