To be repulsed by something
your fellow men now do
to wild sentient creatures
who know the morning dew
who live wild as they always have
and just do not deserve
the hunting and the punting
that clearly does unnerve
any thinking caring soul
that now walks on god’s earth
the fox lives peaceably below
on what he calls his earth
often with his vixen and his cubs
that’s not denied
and if he gets away sometimes
trying just to hide
the “dig Out” comes shovels
and half starved terriers tear
into the hole
preparing to just massacre
and snare
unearthing foxes in this way
in heinous to be sure
this is not sport
no one has thought
it fair to reach their core
to pull them out and throw
them to those hounds
those baying goons
who are ready to tear them to pieces
to the ghastliest of tunes
You can now protect the fox
and protect the hare
they were not put here on earth
for sadists and despair
you can stop this rot
amongst your countrymen
who feel
the wild folk were created
the achilles heel
to be sadistic hunters
that is them for real.
you can stop this rot sir
put Ireland back on the tourist map
as a green and verdant land
not a murdering bunch of lunatics
who failed to understand
*We hate animal cruelty in all its forms*