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 True PatriotismJustice, February 28, 1885
- The Song of the RespectablesThe Commonweal, May 31, 1890
- Hymn to MalthusJustice, September 5, 1885
- The Appeal To PeterThe Vegetarian News, August 1926
- Workman’s Jubilee OdeSocial Democrat, February 1897