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.
The Vegetarian Messenger, July 1, 1887, p. 212
More Verses by Henry Salt
- Bob Anderson, My BeauJustice, January 11, 1908
- The Shade of Judge Jeffreys to the English BenchThe Commonweal, February 19, 1888
- To The Poet LaureateJustice, May 2, 1885
- A Song of “Freedom”Justice, February 14, 1885
- On Mr. Bernard Shaw’s 70th BirthdayThe Times, July 26, 1926