“A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.”
“Be kind to animals,” you’re told.
The reasons? Well, they’re manifold,
And some are new, and some are old;
But when all’s said and done,
The motive that you’ll find most strong,
The simple rule, the short-and-long,
For doing animals no wrong,
Is this – that “you are one.”
The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review, May, 1927, p. 83
More Verses by Henry Salt
- The Unborn Pigs to their PatronThe Vegetarian News, July 1928
- Workman’s Jubilee OdeSocial Democrat, February 1897
- To The Poet LaureateJustice, May 2, 1885
- Wealth and WantJustice, August 8, 1885
- The Song of the RespectablesThe Commonweal, May 31, 1890