Their future in the Council, and their God.
E. B. Anstee.
Another parody on Gray’s “Elegy” appeared in a scarce old Scotch volume, entitled “The Court of Session Garland” which has recently been re-issued by Messrs. Hamilton, Adams & Co., London.
The parody was written by Colin Maclaurin, Esquire, advocate, and was first privately printed at Edinburgh in 1814. It relates the cares and anxieties incident to the legal profession:—
The bell now tolls, soon after dawn of day,
The lawyer herd wind slowly up the street,
The macer court-ward plods his weary way,
Anxious, in haste, each learned judge to meet.
And soon the bustling scene delights the sight,
In yonder gorgeous and stupendous hall,