The Trapper
By Mary Coles Carrington

The Trapper
By Mary Coles Carrington, from Animal Rights Online

How dark the hour of death must seem,
To him who as the end draws near,
Sees the accusing piteous ghosts
Of tortured animals appear!...
I cannot think God would requite
Even to him such pain and dread,
But this I pray - that he may hear
And understand the hapless dead.