First Line: FINESSE BE FIRST, WHOSE ELEGANCE DEPLORES Last Line: SCOUNDREL BE LAST, BE DEAF, BE DUMB, BE BLIND, %WHO WRITES SATIRIC VERSES ON HIS KIND Subject(s): LAW AND LAWYERS; POETRY AND POETS;
Poem Sources:
THE NEW YORKER BOOK OF POEMS; SELECTED BY THE EDITORS OF THE NEW YORKER. (1969)