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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Voices for the Speechless, Edited by Abraham Firth This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Voices for the Speechless Editor: Abraham Firth Release Date: July 10, 2004 [eBook #12879] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VOICES FOR THE SPEECHLESS*** E-text prepared by Elaine Walker and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders VOICES FOR THE SPEECHLESS Selections for Schools and Private Reading by ABRAHAM FIRTH Secretary of the American Humane Association --which "plead the cause Of those dumb mouths that have no speech." LONGFELLOW And I am recompensed, and deem the toils Of poetry not lost, if verse of mine May stand between an animal and woe, And teach one tyrant pity for his drudge COWPER 1883 PREFACE The compiler of this little book has often heard inquiries by teachers of schools, for selections suitable for reading and recitations by their scholars, in which the duty of kindness to animals should be distinctly taught. To meet such calls, three successive pamphlets were published, and a fourth consisting of selections from the Poems of Mr. Longfellow. All were received with marked favor by the teachers to whom they became known. This led to their collection afterwards in one volume for private circulation, and now the volume is republished for public sale, with a few omissions and additions. All who desire our children to be awakened in their schools to the claims of the humbler creatures are invited to see that copies are put in school libraries, that they may be within the reach of all teachers. And this, not for the sake of the creatures only. As Pope has said, "Nothing stands alone; the chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown." Many readers may be surprised to find how many of the great poets have been touched by the sufferings of the "innocent animals," and how loftily they have pleaded their cause. The poems in the collection are not all complete, because of their length in some cases, and, in others, because a part only of each was suited to the end in view. A very f
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