To swell the riot of the autumnal feast

Won by his labour?”[151]

And again in denouncing the amateur slaughtering (euphemised by the mocking term of Sport) unblushingly perpetrated in the broad light of day:—

“When beasts of prey retire, that all night long,

Urged by necessity, had ranged the dark,

As if their conscious ravage shunned the light,

Ashamed. Not so [he reproaches] the steady tyrant Man,

Who with the thoughtless insolence of Power,

Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath