Man’s life is nurtured;—learning, science, vigour draw.
If man be slaughtered, see what woes from thence arise.
Compare the two;—their difference you’ll recognise.155
The vegetable world lives by God’s sun and rain,
God’s care takes charge of it. His care is not in vain.
The slaughtered beasts have food and drink as well as those.
They die, because they’ve throats. Those have no life to lose.
Withhold thy hand in season, man of little sense!
That so thy food suffice. Thy life’s thy recompense.
Thou art as fruitless as the barren willow-branch,