By A Defeated Litigant

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Title:     By A Defeated Litigant
Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce]

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.

[The end]
Ambrose Bierce's poem: By A Defeated Litigant

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