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“SPORT”.
“BUT for amusements, life were tolerable”,So said the sage; and certes, what in court
And hall and street “amusement” men report
Is weariness for those, past words to tell,
To whom true pleasure is delectable
And highest, noble work; whilst, what for “sport”
Alas! is holden of the baser sort,
What for the nobler sense were direr hell
Than our dumb fellows' pain to see, to hear
The rabbit's scream, the hare's despairing cry,
To meet the dying bird's fast-glazing eye,
Reproachful for its life of harmless cheer
Crushed out by fools, who nothing better know
Than to find pleasure in another's woe?
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