The judge his favour timely then extends, When a good cause is destitute of friends, Without the pomp of council; or more aid, Than to make falsehood blush, and fraud afraid: When those good few, that her defenders be, Are there for charity, and not for fee. Such shall you hear today, and find great foes Both armed with wealth, and slander to oppose, Who thus long safe, would gain upon the times A right by the prosperity of their crimes; Who, though their guilt, and perjury they know, Think, yea and boast, that they have done it so As though the court pursues them on the scent, They will come off, and 'scape the punishment. When this appears, just lord, to your sharp sight, He does you wrong, that craves you to do right. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SHIP OF RIO by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PART 2. EPILOGUE by JOHN DRYDEN THE AGED STRANGER; AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR by FRANCIS BRET HARTE THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES RESERVE by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE LUKE HAVERGAL by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON MAUDE CLARE by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI FOUR LITTLE FOXES by LEW SARETT THE SMUGGLER'S LEAP; A LEGEND OF THANET by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |