(By One who has to Make Bricks with It.)
["... It is rumoured that a measure will shortly be introduced for transferring the duties of Revising Barristers to Magistrates.">[
Go, tell the budding blooms they'll ne'er have dew more,
Go, doom the summer trees to languish leafless—
A like effect this ultra-fiendish rumour
Works in the drooping bosoms of the Briefless.
No more Reviserships! No paltry pittance
For Themis' harvesters, too often sheafless!
Is this the Constitution, once Great Britain's;
This, your provision for the meekly Briefless?