["The hyæna's aspect is repulsive. Malign, inexorable, and untameably savage, its eyes shine like lucifers in the dark night; its stealthy, dusky form surprises us. It fears the light of day, and strangles what is weak and straying from the path. It mocks its prey with a laugh."—The Book of Nature and of Man.]
Unchanged, unchangeable! A scourge
Attila-like from age to age;
What plea can Charity now urge
For such immitigable rage?
No rest from ravin, no surcease
Of carnage? Vain it seems to ply
Earth's butcher, foe of love, home, peace
With pleadings of humanity.
Since words avail not, any more