THOU potent pleader of a wrongful cause
Would’st make the tested scales of justice waver ;
How could I, decreed to obey thy laws,
Refrain from ceding judgment in thy favour?
Full well I know you did me purposed wrong
To test the probings of thy love’s deceit ;
Seeming indifferent, silent overlong.
Yet wooing reconciliation sweet.
With mem’ried kiss, the curvings of thy dress.
The gleaming lights fast captured in thine eyes,
Minute essentials of thy loveliness.
And when I spoke, thy look of faint surprise.
In Cupid’s Court, defendants jury are.
The plaintiffs being prisoners at the Bar.
(Bernard Waters)
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