I, TOO, am a fan of William Blake's poetry, Poets backing hunting cause, Gazette Postbag, March 3, whose work seems to support hunting, but I would suggest that Ralph Hodgson's poem The Bells of Heaven makes the case for the opposition a little more persuasively:

'Twould ring the bells of Heaven

The wildest peal for years,

If Parson lost his senses

And people came to theirs

And he and they together

Knelt down with angry prayers

For tamed and shabby tigers

And dancing dogs and bears

And wretched blind pit ponies

And little hunted hares

But then, to each his own

Mr T M MITCHELL Martins Lane, Tiverton