“The butcher's knife hath laid low the delight of a fond dam, and the darling of nature is now stretched in gore upon the ground.” DeathPoetryKillingCrueltyHuntingHuntersSentimentalismSentientismAnti Anthropocentrism Book:The Cry of Nature; Or, an Appeal to Mercy and to Justice, on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals Source: The Cry of Nature; Or, an Appeal to Mercy and to Justice, on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals