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Thread #93498   Message #1800825
Posted By: Richard in Manchester
03-Aug-06 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: Robert Lloyd poem 'The Law Student'
Subject: RE: BS: Robert Lloyd poem 'The Law Student'
Jude, that's amazing, thank you very much!

And what a verse:

O, for thy spirit, Mansfield! at thy name,
what bosom glows not with an active flame?
Alone from Jargon born to rescue law,
from precedent, grave hum and formal saw,
to strip chicanery of its vain pretence,
and marry Common Law to Common Sense

I'm no lover of poetry as a general rule, but I like that a lot.

How can I return the favour?