Petty and mean in all its parts;
Quest thro’ the law for an old home place,
—Put never a word of two broken hearts.
Only a suit where the son and wife
Pledged themselves when they coaxed the
deed,
To comfort the close of the old folks’ life:
—Only another case where greed
Sneered at the toil of the long, hard years
Of martyrdom to the hoe and axe,