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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
—Henry David Thoreau
idyll, or idyl
Either a short poem depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene, or a long poem that tells a story about heroic deeds or extraordinary events set in the distant past. Idylls of the King, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, is about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.