| Samuel Kettell, ed. Specimens of American Poetry. 1829. | | | | Fragments | | By Joseph Green (1706–1780) |
| | | LAW bears the name, but money has the power. | |
| 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. | 5 |
| And the grave knight, that nods upon the laws, | |
| Waked by a fee, hems and approves the cause. | |
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Extempore on the fourth latin school being taken down to make room for enlarging the chapel church.
A FIG for your learning, I tell you the town, | |
| To make the church larger must pull the school down. | |
| “Unluckily spoken,” replied Master Birch, | 10 |
| “Then learning, I fear, stops the growth of the church.” | | | | |
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