BALLAD OF THE UNSURPRISED JUDGE.
["Mr. Justice Hawkins observed, 'I am surprised at nothing.'"—Pitts v. Joseph, "Times'" Report, March 27.]
All hail to Sir Henry, whom nothing surprises;
Ye Judges and suitors, regard him with awe,
As he sits up aloft on the Bench and applies his
Swift mind to the shifts and the tricks of the Law.
Many years has he lived, and has always seen clear things
That Nox seemed to hide from our average eyes:
But still, though encompassed with all sorts of queer things,
He never, no never gives way to surprise.