Song for the Jack London Club
By Geraldine E. Lyster
An Animal Rights Poem from All-Creatures.org

 

Song for the Jack London Club
By Geraldine E. Lyster

About circus animals, from Ernest Bell's 1923 book Speak Up For The Animals...

Rise up and go, don't watch this show,
Poor trained animals suffer so.
If you but knew all they go through,
Their performances you could not view.
Oh, how they pine each weary day,
In small dark boxes stowed away,
Till the time's near, when, dazed with fear,
In limelight, on the stage, they appear.

Rise up and go, others will know
That for the helpless you're striking a blow.
They'll come along, we'll be so strong,
Soon we'll have ended this awful wrong.
Oh, how they dread their work each night,
Poor little hearts beating fast with fright,
Rise up and go, displeasure show,
This is the way to help them, you know.

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