By A Defeated Litigant Poem by Ambrose Bierce

By A Defeated Litigant

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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.

Ambrose Bierce
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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