The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-07-20
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SEVEN AGES OF THE LAWYER.
Ed,card A. u. ra,en.tnc, "a the crocn Bag.


All the worlds a court,
Where some are lawyers and the rest are lawed:
And life's action to which all are parties;
They get discharged and enter their appearance:
Their acts being seven ages.
First then the infant,
The Joseph Junior of the lecture room,
For whose untutored eye is drawn aside
The cumbrous drapery of words obscure,
To show the naked beauty of the truth;
Who constant cons the honbook of the law,
smiths Leading Cases. wherein he is taught
By the SIC Carpenters to nail the facts
And build with rule and saw knowledge high
ofircspqss 40 inaio: to learn
From Scot & shepard the important art
of throwing squibs to scorch his legal brethren.
And blind them in the practice Of their trade;
And lastly pick from out the poor sweeps case
Its germ of truth long hidden in the dust
Next, .Sj.aon senior, with his hasty step,
Aud mind well stuffed with legal provender
ofralcs and usages and state reports;
Who deems his thesis an explosive boom
That, when he's fired it of, win surely shatter
The many froward errors of the law,
a nostrum for the cancer spots that gnaw
the DfesiSt OF Justice Iestln lleF Iitlitle loia
Who dreams in him the soul of Webster dwells.
Though yet inglorious and to fame unknown;
Who pines impatient for the day to come
When he may like an eagle spread his wings
And mount to glory in the legal skies,
And from his sheepskin get golden fleece.
Whose moot court case is a momentous thing,
Faught with grave issues and the bays of fame;
There with a disputatious flood Of words
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And saeoels with tongue persuasive all before him
Unconscious that he uses, borrowed ByOyahap.
Next, Leiris La,cger, newly dubbed B. l..
Who signs ike a furnace that is full of Coke;
Who woos his coy, caprieious mistress Law
That lightly holds him, playing fast and loose
With his devotion and his awkward suit
Who idly drums upon the window pane,
While clients that were looked for never come
Then next Charles Counsellor, adorned With scars
Won lawfully in midst of wordy wars:
The willy soldier of the legal field;
Followed by witnesses that swear strange oaths:
Jealous Of Others. ready and quick in quarrel
seeking to win a Judgment even against
The caal,o,,'s mouth; calling his rival brother,
But ofIener coseniHg him.
Next, .Tosep6 JasicC,
Raised to the pleasant woolsacks high degree,
In awe-inspiring wig and sable gown.
with solemn verdict and an eye severe:
With fair round belly and his purse well lined
SLrh aqr: the Judge retired; AZ his club
Taking his comfort in his easy cbair.
Mellow with many years and good old port
Much given to speech and seasoned anecsfoie
And wit and repartee of bench and bar.
And graphic scenes OF legal days gone by;
ON whom prosperity and honor smile;
While time and he together play the rubber
Of likes long game Of many tricks and suits
Last scene Of all, I'D agc. and that grim goal
Where Death, the sheriff waits TO serve the writ
OF summons to that higher record court,
Where all our deeds are fled and titles searched
BY the impartial eye OF the great Judge.
For him who's kept the sworl Of Justice clean
and helped TO make the bulwarkS OF the law
Fit for the sentinel tread Of peace. for him
No more oblivion waits, but being dead,
Yet viii his voice in after ages speak
In code and valued volume Of the law
And monuments Of honor. 10 the mind.