Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics / Second Series
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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ETHANDUNE AND OTHER POEMS
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SECOND SERIES
You will think a lawyer has as little business with poetry as he has with justice. Perhaps so. I have been too partial to both.
—Thomas Love Peacock, in Melincourt
LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1895
Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Hyphenation has been standardised.
(The First Series was published anonymously in 1881, and is now out of print. Some of the following pieces have already appeared in periodicals.)
James Williams
BRIEFLESS BALLADS
CONTENTS
Justinian at Windermere
A Vision of Legal Shadows
The Squire's Daughter
Her Letter in Chambers
Law and Poetry
Somewhere
Roman Law
Bologna
A Garden Party in the Temple
The Spinning-House of the Future
How we found our Verdict
A Greek Libel
Le Temps Passé
Lawn Tennis in the Temple Gardens
A Ballade of Lost Law
Comœdia Juris
Cases
Cases
Translations
Translations