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1798 | Ode to Humanity

O come, Humanity ! to this fell race
Thy soul-subduing gifts impart,
That every love and every grace,
On their unclouded brow may smile,
And triumph in their heart.
So shall their hand from carnage cease,
And high upon thine altar pile
The fruits of charity and peace.
(Rev. C. Hoyle, Ode to Humanity [1798])

The regal bull, ignobly now confin'd,
Torn by the dogs, and madden'd by the chain;
(Rev. C. Hoyle, Ode to Humanity [1798])

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1798 | Rev. C. Hoyle, "Ode to Humanity," preface to An Essay on Humanity to Animals, by Thomas Young (London, 1798; Online at Animal Rights History, 2003).

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