Thursday, January 1, 2004

The Country Justice Comments

Rating: 2.6

TWO lawyers to their cause so well adhered,
A country justice quite confused appeared,
By them the facts were rendered so obscure
With which the truth remained he was not sure.
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Jean De La Fontaine
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Khairul Ahsan 07 September 2018

'Courts often judge at hazard in the law, Without deciding by the longest straw' - well, I would rather agree with Susan Williams that things haven't changed much in last 400 years. At least, in my country, this kind of 'country justice' is not totally unfounded.

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Tariq Al 05 September 2018

Country justice is ever eschewing..... and shall but God forbid, sing on: 'tis nothing new I've tried! '

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Susan Williams 04 September 2018

well that's enough of the flipping poem as I can stand today

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Susan Williams 04 September 2018

part 3- - although they will let rapists go with a smack on the hand in

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Susan Williams 04 September 2018

part 2- - judge would never admit to tossing the coin to make a decision

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Susan Williams 04 September 2018

Well nothing has changed in the last 400 years except today's

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Poem God 04 September 2018

DUMB POEM. Meaning is shallow! ! ! ! Jean De La Fontaine is a lesbian. Jean De La Fontaine has ligma.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 04 September 2018

TWO: The last of his tales were published posthumously. Each tale has a moral - an instruction how to behave correctly or how life should be lived. In the second volume La Fontaine based his tales on stories from Asia and other places. They were widely translated and imitated during the 17th and 18th centuries all over Europe, and beyond. Congratulations on being chosen as the Classic Poem Of The Day. Marvelous! Myriad of10's.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 04 September 2018

ONE: He was famous because of His Fables Choisies Mises en Vers, usually called La Fontaine Fables, were published over the last 25 years of his life. The first volume appeared when the author was 47. The book includes some 240 poems and timeless stories of countryfolk, heroes from Greek mythology, and familiar beasts from the fables of Aesop, from which La Fontaine unhesitatingly borrowed his material.

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Baquee Billah Ahmed 04 September 2018

ITS VERY GOOD................................NICE

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Edward Kofi Louis 04 September 2018

Straw, raw! ! Nothing new. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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M Asim Nehal 04 September 2018

Fantastic, In and out of the court ad how the cases are being dealt all nicely written..10++

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Adrian Flett 04 September 2018

Charles Dickens would be proud of this way of deciding a case, that was long confused by, 'the facts were rendered so obscure'; but solved by two straws of different lengths.

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Mahtab Bangalee 04 September 2018

nice writing - Justice become garbage of rusted scale pan when the judge plays a game of fate by wrapping a black cloth on his eyes of law!

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