Yet I could not choose but hear,

As thus spake on that shabby man,

That briefless Barristere—

And now November came, the Law

Was tyrannous and strong;

The thirtieth day all Plans must stay,

And Sections, right or wrong.

“Thro’ day and dark the sleepy clerk

Must toil and moil with care and cark;

Lithographers, with fingers stark,