TAKING ITS COURSE
By.
WHIM WHAM
I have a learned legal Friend Who gives me sound Advice — I never grudge the Man his Fee, His Services, it seems to Me, Are cheap, at any Price. f put It to my legal Friend — . Prepare me a Petition! The Cause is just, the Need is dire, A Royal Commission to inquire ■ • Into a Royal Commission; My legal Friend adorns the Bar, None of your common Drudges. He scratched his Wig, he thought he saw Sufficient Precedent in Law For Judges judging Judges. My learned Friend could not have guessed • How wild were my Ambitions — ' A final Royal Commission, tough As Truth itself, and Royal enough To end all Royal Commissions! Legal and learned as he is, He’s human, after All. . He hitched his Gown, he thumbed his. Brief, He knew the Evidence-in-Chief Which he was bound to call. We get our Money’s worth. — of Truth ' And Justice — in the End! <. Aniiyet.itseemsanendlessTask — How long? And do I dare to ask v ‘""My learned legal Friend?
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