The Painted Veil
Significance of Goldsmith's Elegy
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Goldsmith's Elegy is a poem about a rabid dog who bit a man. His friends thought he would die, but it turned out that he lived and the dog died. Before dying, Walter utters the poem's last words: He was the dog that died, and Kitty was the person he bit.