This is a beautiful piece on uTube, sponsored by PETA2 (the youth activist leg of PETA). PETA has a tee shirt of the "ode to freedom" concept also.
Inspired by this idea, I made my own ode. It is not a classic Greek ode, but is done in metric verse.
An Ode to Freedom
Soft grass upon the hillside grows,
it blooms in gold and green
The worms below will till the soil,
all life on earth to feed
The mother cow takes sweetness in,
to meet her baby’s need
No grasping hand to steal her milk,
no predatory deed
From worm to cow to calf to me,
all creatures may be free
When we who take so heedlessly
allow all life to be
In concert and, by divine right,
exist in Liberty.
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