“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?”