251 How can the wont of 'kindly grace' to him be known, Who other creatures' flesh [taken without GOD's name] consumes to feed his own?

252 No use of wealth have they who guard not their estate; No use of grace have they with flesh [unlawfully taken] who hunger sate.

253 Like heart of them that murderous weapons bear, his mind Who eats of savoury meat [unlawfully taken], no joy in good can find.

254 'What 's grace, or lack of grace'? 'To kill [wantonly]' is this, that 'not to kill'; To eat dead flesh [unlawfully taken] can never worthy end fulfil.

255 If flesh [unlawfully taken] you eat not, life's abodes unharmed remain; Who eats, hell swallows him, and renders not again.

256 'We eat the slain,' you say, 'by us no living creatures die'; Who 'd kill [unjustly] and sell, I pray, if none came there the flesh to buy?

257 With other beings' ulcerous wounds [unjustly inflicted] their hunger they appease; If this they felt, desire to eat must surely cease.

258.

Whose souls the vision pure and passionless perceive,

Eat not the bodies men [unlawfully] of life bereave.

259.

Than thousand rich oblations, with libations rare,

Better the flesh of [unlawfully] slaughtered beings not to share.

260.

Who slays nought [unjustly], —flesh rejects, —his feet before

All living things with clasped hands [honour].