Samuel Kettell, ed. Specimens of American Poetry. 1829.
By FragmentsJoseph Green (17061780)
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The cause is bad whene’er the client ’s poor.
Those strict-lived men, who seem above our world,
Are oft too modest to resist our gold;
So judgment like our other wares is sold.
And the grave knight, that nods upon the laws,
Waked by a fee, hems and approves the cause.
Extempore on the fourth latin school being taken down to make room for enlarging the chapel church.
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To make the church larger must pull the school down.
“Unluckily spoken,” replied Master Birch,
“Then learning, I fear, stops the growth of the church.”