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    Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series
    Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series
    Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series
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    Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series
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    James Williams

    Mindful Dad, Counsellor MBAC, parent mentor and author helping sensitive children to be better understood so they can thrive in our overwhelming world. High sensitivity has a massive impact on my family's life, and coming to understand the trait has transformed our lives – for the better. Before we understood high sensitivity we were bumbling about in the dark; now we're in the light.

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      Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series - James Williams

      Project Gutenberg's Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics, by James Williams

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      Title: Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics

      Second Series

      Author: James Williams

      Release Date: May 2, 2008 [EBook #25281]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRIEFLESS BALLADS AND LEGAL LYRICS ***

      Produced by Bryan Ness, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      BRIEFLESS BALLADS

      BY THE SAME AUTHOR

      SIMPLE STORIES OF LONDON

      VERSES SUITABLE FOR RECITATION

      Crown 8vo, cloth, price 1s. 6d.

      ETHANDUNE

      AND OTHER POEMS

      Crown 8vo, cloth, price 2s. 6d.

      BRIEFLESS BALLADS

      AND

      LEGAL LYRICS

      SECOND SERIES

      By JAMES WILLIAMS

      You will think a lawyer has as little business with poetry as he has with justice. Perhaps so. I have been too partial to both.

      —Thomas Love Peacock, in Melincourt

      LONDON

      ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK

      1895

      [All Rights Reserved]

      Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Hyphenation has been standardised.

      CONTENTS

      (The First Series was published anonymously in 1881, and is now out of print. Some of the following pieces have already appeared in periodicals.)

      Interioris amat Templi jam Pegasus aulas

      Pieria in Medio plenior unda ruit.

      Justinian at Windermere

      We took a hundredweight of books

      To Windermere between us,

      Our dons had blessed our studious looks,

      Had they by chance but seen us.

      Maine, Blackstone, Sandars, all were there,

      And Hallam's Middle Ages,

      And Austin with his style so rare,

      And Poste's enticing pages.

      We started well: the little inn

      Was deadly dull and quiet,

      As dull as Mrs. Wood's East Lynne,

      Or as the verse of Wyatt.

      Without distraction thus we read

      From nine until eleven,

      Then rowed and sailed until we fed

      On potted char at seven.

      Two hours of work! We could devote

      Next day to recreation,

      Much illness springs, so doctors note,

      From lack of relaxation.

      Let him read law on summer days,

      Who has a soul that grovels;

      Better one tale of Thackeray's

      Than all Justinian's novels.

      At noon we went upon the lake,

      We could not stand the slowness

      Of our lone inn, so dined on steak

      (They called it steak) at Bowness.

      We wrestled with the steak, when lo!

      Rose Jack in such a hurry,

      He saw a girl he used to

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