Fashion illustrations by René Gruau
“The deer and the dachshund are one”
Wallace Stevens
“Loneliness in New Jersey“
DACHSHUNDS
“The Dachshund leads a quiet life
Not far above the ground;
He takes an elongated wife,
They travel all around.
Lady Rendlesham With Her Daughter, Antonia, by The Serpentine, Walking Tess D’Erlanger’s Dachshund. Photo by Norman Parkinson. Vogue, May 1959
They leave the lighted metropole;
Nor turn to look behind
Upon the headlands of the soul,
The tundras of the mind.
They climb together through the dusk
To ask the Lost-and-Found
For information on the stars
Not far above the ground.
The Dachshunds seem to journey on:
And following them, I
Take up my monocle, the Moon,
And gaze into the sky.
Pursuing them with comic art
Beyond the cosmic goal,
I see the whole within the part,
The part within the whole;
Coiffure for Harper’s Bazaar. Photo by Lillian Bassman, c. 1954
See planets wheeling overhead,
Mysterious and slow,
While morning buckles on his red,
And on the Dachshunds go.”
William Jay Smith