. The lays of a lawyer . INTRODUCTION OME one more versed in books than I Has something more than hinted I ought to give a reason why This little book is printed; And that tis hard to do—// hathNo bearing on the season; It was not writ for love^ or wrath,Or other obvious reason; It hath no lesson to impart; It solves no social question ;Its pathos may not reach the heart. Its laughter help digestion; Tet if one verse within it finds A sympathetic dimpleOr if it prove to laymen s minds, That lawyers can be simple. Why then Id hold its work well doneThough further praise be stinted. For after al
. The lays of a lawyer . INTRODUCTION OME one more versed in books than I Has something more than hinted I ought to give a reason why This little book is printed; And that tis hard to do—// hathNo bearing on the season; It was not writ for love^ or wrath,Or other obvious reason; It hath no lesson to impart; It solves no social question ;Its pathos may not reach the heart. Its laughter help digestion; Tet if one verse within it finds A sympathetic dimpleOr if it prove to laymen s minds, That lawyers can be simple. Why then Id hold its work well doneThough further praise be stinted. For after all tis half for funThis little book is printed. Zl. Oyez ! Oyez ! Oyez ! i Psalms, LXXXV: lo 3 Understood The Court of Love To JanetTo Phyllis .Lex Talionis .Her Heart ^^ Tempora Mutantur .^ To Phyllis .... To Chloe .... Ballade In Answer to a Request for Nine Valen-tines ....... To a Five Dollar Bill 46 8 9II 12 13 1718 20 2223 If I Were Rich . . . 24 On Edith Masquerading as Diana on St. Valentines Day .... 26 April Fool ...... 28 A Mile. Phyllis .... 29 Autumnal ...... 30 A Cup of Tea ..... 31 On a Butterfly Fluttering Over the Chan- cel ...... 32 To My Godson .... 33 To Miss Pumpernickel .... 34 Cheeky ...... 3S To Daphne with a Silver Bonbonniere 36 Under the Mistletoe . . 37 Love with Marginal Notes 38 Autumn Days ..... 40 A Valentine 41 You Dear Old Gotham 42 A Valentine ...... 44 Entre Nous ..... 45 To My Mother on Her Birthday . 49 To My Mother on Her Birthday 52 Two Pictures ..... S3 To Prue with a Fan .... SS Yesterday, To-day and To-morrow . ^6 Arcadie . . . 58 Miss Aurora Borealis . . .60 A Plea for Two Law
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