"When to raise the wind some lawyer tries, Mysterious skins of parchment meet our eyes; On speeds the smiling suit— . . . . . . Till stript—nonsuited—he is doomed to toss In legal shipwreck, and redeemless loss, Lucky, if like Ulysses, he can keep His head above the waters of the deep."
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Horace and James Smith, Rejected Addresses, Architectural Atoms. Translation by Dr. B. T.
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