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186 Though lawyers cause a more protracted pain, A wearying torture of the heart and brain; Some, with the wooing utterance of a siren, Elastic consciences and hearts like iron; Some who, with cold looks, and with hearts of steel, At times, disturbing qualms of conscience feel. But—that they as a rule have hearts of flint, I neither think, nor should assert in print; Yet numbers of them do not care a pin. How much their clients suffer, lose, or win; And some will chuckle o'er a doleful tale. Wrung out by Bills of Costs, or Bills of Sale. They prosper because men will be flagitious; Because large numbers of mankind are vicious; Of whom, a large proportion are litigious. And to supplant each other are ambitious; By mankind's crimes and follies they exist. And, to enrich them, all men's strifes assist.