Excerpt from Law and the Family
A Probate Judge who talks in verse
Suggests a decorated hearse;
But these slow lips I cannot teach
To make an after-dinner speech.
So I will utilise my time
By dropping briefly into rhyme.
A Probate Judge who outlives you
May break your will - yes, tax it, too.
Concerning various other things
His power outrivals that of Kings:
If he decides you are insane,
All your remonstrances are vain.
A spendthrift - he can cut you short.
Your wife asks separate support
And finds the Judge her nearest friend.
You drink - and Foxboro is the end.
Your children, when you prove unfit.
Are whisked away by sovereign writ.
If your accounts aren't just and true.
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