Isaac Gompertz

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“Too much you've view'd, too poignantly you've felt,Too long on human sufferings we've dwelt;These woful visions shift, but scenes appear,Which tho' less painful, cause the conscious tear.”

“If after ages grow more humaniz'd,And present cruelty almost forgot;How will the reader, shudd'ring, be surpris'd,At living lobsters in a boiling pot.”

“Why ridicule the act, the feeling blame,Which from the spider would the fly reclaim;Since from the reptile, in gradation due,'Twould link the world in sympathy to you?Let not this bold assertion ease thy mind,"This all is nature, and by heav'n design'd:"Would you not bless the arm, if stretch'd to saveYour individual carcass from the grave?From the fierce tiger's unrelenting claw,Or rav'nous wolf; though Nature gave the law?”