SAY did the scent of flesh thy feet allure,
Gaunt wolf? — go back, no prey for thee is here:
Track through the woods, thy craving want to cure,
Poor harmless hares, or chase the statelier deer:
Ev’n wert thou close, this crew would little fear:
Rather would’st thou fear us. No cause have we,
As Horace sung of yore, in danger near
From Sabine wolf, to marvel we are free.
But must they, those poor brutes, thy victims be?
Ah! through creation’s length and breadth, the curse
Flows like the general flood; and birds, we see,
Most blithe and sweet, with grubs their nestlings nurse:
And man is wolf to man. Dawn, happier day;
Oh! quickly dawn, when wolf with lamb shall play.
(George Jehoshaphat Mountain)
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