Talk:Hymns/@comment-174.100.50.103-20160115014547

''' The Water-Shrew That Rends Its Prey '''



 The Water-Shrew That Rends Its Prey

 Acts purely out of Nature’s need;

 It does not stop upon its cause

 It simply does the deed.

 The Leopard pouncing in the night

 Is kin to soft domestic bliss,

 They love to hunt, they hunt to love -

 Because God made them this.

 And who can say if Joy or Fear

 Are in each other’s lasting debt,

 Does every prey enjoy each breath

 Because of constant threat?

 We are not as Animals,

 We cherish other creature’s lives;

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;"> So we do not eat their flesh,

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;"> Unless dread famine drives.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;"> And if dread famine drives us on;

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;"> If we yield to tempting meat,

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;"> May God forgive our broken vows

<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;"> And bless the Life we eat.