IN CORPORE VILI. — “A man named Corpse has narrowly escaped death through eating a quantity of unwholesome brawn.” —Pall Mall Gazette, Sept. 4th, 1886.
A brawny business indeed!
Our sense of right it shocks,
That living men should foully feed
On corpse of pig and ox;
But deeper far the wrong must be,
If brother spare not brother—
The crowning infamy we see,
When one Corpse eats another.
More Verses by Henry Salt
- The Shade of Judge Jeffreys to the English BenchThe Commonweal, February 19, 1888
- In MemoriamThe Humanitarian, December 1918
- The Song of the RespectablesThe Commonweal, May 31, 1890
- The Blessings of EmigrationJustice, May 9, 1885
- ValentineJustice, February 12, 1887