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 Plea of PythagorasThe Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review, April 1910
- The Village ButcherThe Food Reform Magazine, January-March 1884
- The Joy That Never PallsProgress, November, 1886
- Hymn to MalthusJustice, September 5, 1885
- Deo GratiasThe Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger, April 1, 1885