That you may cautiously follow up the scale

In all its detail, and you’ll never fail

To accomplish good in giving people their rights

And in keeping them quiet and free from fights.

By the penitentiaries you keep and your jails

Where people sleep with vermin on rails;

Waiting for trial before jury and judge.

Weeks before they are allowed to budge,

Makes them have against you such a grudge;

That when they get loose, as they frequently do