Nature, red in tooth and claw

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_{^{Man ...

Who trusted God was love indeed

And love Creation’s final law ~

Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw

With ravine, shriek’d against his creed ~}}_{^{Canto LV, "In Memoriam" by Alfred Lord Tennyson}}

When the early bird catches the worm, its beak clenches the slimy thing real firm; then, it shakes it violently, to and fro, as if to let the dangling wriggler know, this ~ is the end of the show.

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