“But wisdom lies,” the book avers,
“In multitude of counsellors!”
I grant the maxim sound and true,
And just the thing we want most, too;
We’ve multitudes of quacks, I grant,
And lawyers more than Heaven can want,
But as for counsellors, alack,
Scarce one that’s fit to counsel Jack!
What brought this state of things about?
These same majorities, no doubt,