“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things.”
Was said of men’s hard hearts, not Rocks with wings.
One comes to bet and thinks the shooting rubbish,
Another shoots, but votes the betting snobbish.
This little episode a moral teaches;
Which of the two is right? I fancy each is.
If we are only slaughter for the larder,
I wish they’d miss us clean or hit us harder.
This amateur despatching ten times worse is
Even than the wicked poulterer’s tender mercies;