BY A DEFEATED LITIGANT.

Liars for witnesses; for lawyers brutes

Who lose their tempers to retrieve their suits;

Cowards for jurors; and for judge a clown

Who ne'er took up the law, yet lays it down;

Justice denied, authority abused,

And the one honest person the accused—

Thy courts, my country, all these awful years,

Move fools to laughter and the wise to tears.

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