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32
JENKINS V. FLAVEL COOK.
APRIL 1st, 1876.
There is one Judge of all the Courts Above,
And for one end His Statutes are decreed,
Our conscience only at that Bar can plead,
Our heart is lawyer, and the Code is Love!
Yet we, on earth, will on that Code improve,
With complex clause will suit each selfish creed,
And, when in passionate zeal men stab and bleed,
Forget the cause for which at first we strove.
Man is not Minos, Cook, that he should send
A soul to Heaven or a soul to Hell!
Say, Jenkins, hast thou broached th' invisible,
That thou deniest person to the Fiend?
God shall discern; His Love shall legislate;
And each one day forgive the other's fancied hate.
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