Lawyers Walk Where Doctors Drive

Wbat eurious tales has life in store, With all its nmst-bes and lts may-bes I The sage of eitiuty years and more Once erept a nursliug on the floor ; Kings, conquerers, judge.s, all were bables. The fearlesa soldier, who has faced The serried bayoneta' gleam appalline, For nothing save a pin misplaced The peaceíul nursery has disgraced With hours oL unheroic bawling. The mighty monarch, whose renown Filis up the stately page historie, Haa howled to waken half the town, And tinished ofl by gulping down Iliá castor oil or paregoric. The justice, who, in gown and cap, Condiimns a wretch to strangulation, Has scratched his nurse and Bpillud uis pap, Andsprawled across his mother'slap For wholesome law's adminlstration. Ah, life has many a reef to shun Before in port we drop our anchor, But when its cour6e is nobly run Look aft ! for there the work was done, Life owes its headway to the spanker. Yon seat of justice well might awe The fairest manhood's half-blown suinmer, There Parsons ecourged the laggard law, There reigned and ruled majestic Shaw- What ghosts to hail the last newcomer 1 One cause of fear I faintly name- The dread lest duty's dereliction Shall give so rarely cause for Mame Our guileless voters ehall exelaim, "No need íor human juri3diction I" What keeps the doctor's trade alive? Bad air, bad water; more's the pity '. Uut lawyers walk where doctors drive. And starve in streets where eurgeons thrive, Our Boston is so pure a city. What cali for judge or court, indeed, When rignteousness prevails so througu ït, Our virtuous car conductors need Oaly a card whereon they read : "Do right; it's naughty not to dolt! The whirligig of time goes round, And changos all thiugs uut affection; One blessed comfort may bt found In heaven's broad statute which has bound Each houehold to its head:s protcction. If e'er agarieved, attacked, accused, A sire may claim a son1 8 devotion To ehield hls innocence abused, As old Anenises freely used Hisoffspring'slegs lor locomotion. You smile. You did uot come to weep, Nor I my weakness to be ehowin-g; And these gay stanzas, slieht and eheap, Have served their simple use- to keep A f ather'8 eyes f rom overüowiug.