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So Hall McAllister you'll not be warned	A
My protest slighted admonition scorned	A
To save your scoundrel client from a cell	B
As loth to swallow him as he to swell	B
Its sum of meals insurgent it decries	C
All wars intestinal with meats that rise	C
You turn your scurril tongue against the press	D
And damn the agency you ought to bless	D
Had not the press with all its hundred eyes	C
Discerned the wolf beneath the sheep's disguise	C
And raised the cry upon him he to day	E
Would lack your company and you would lack his pay	E
	-
Talk not of 'hire' and consciences for sale	F
You whose profession 'tis to threaten rail	F
Calumniate and libel at the will	G
Of any villain who can pay the bill	G
You whose most honest dollars all were got	H
By saying for a fee 'the thing that's not '	-
To you 'tis one to challenge or defend	I
Clients are means their money is an end	I
In my profession sometimes as in yours	J
Always a payment large enough secures	J
A mercenary service to defend	I
The guilty or the innocent to rend	I
But mark the difference nor think it slight	I
We do not hold it proper just and right	I
Of selfish lies a little still we shame	K
And give our villainies another name	K
Hypocrisy's an ugly vice no doubt	I
But blushing sinners can't get on without	I
Happy the lawyer at his favored hands	L
Nor truth nor decency the world demands	L
Secure in his immunity from shame	K
His cheek ne'er kindles with the tell tale flame	K
His brains for sale morality for hire	M
In every land and century a licensed liar	M
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No doubt McAllister you can explain	N
How honorable 'tis to lie for gain	N
Provided only that the jury's made	I
To understand that lying is your trade	I
A hundred thousand volumes broad and flat	I
The Bible not included proving that	I
Have been put forth though still the doubt remains	O
If God has read them with befitting pains	O
No Morrow could get justice you'll declare	P
If none who knew him foul affirmed him fair	P
Ingenious man how easy 'tis to raise	Q
An argument to justify the course that pays	Q
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I grant you if you like that men may need	I
The services performed for crime by greed	I
Grant that the perfect welfare of the State	I
Requires the aid of those who in debate	I
As mercenaries lost in early youth	R
The fine distinction between lie and truth	R
Who cheat in argument and set a snare	P
To take the feet of Justice unaware	P
Who serve with livelier zeal when rogues assist	I
With perjury embracery the list	I
Is long to quote than when an honest soul	S
Scorning to plot conspire intrigue cajole	S
Reminds them their astonishment how great	I
He'd rather suffer wrong than perpetrate	I
I grant in short 'tis better all around	I
That ambidextrous consciences abound	I
In courts of law to do the dirty work	T
That self respecting scavengers would shirk	T
What then Who serves however clean a plan	U
By doing dirty work he is a dirty man	U

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