Social Commentaries
The Net of Law
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)
Social Commentaries
The net of law is spread so wide,
No sinner from its sweep may hide.
Its meshes are so fine and strong,
They take in every child of wrong.
O wondrous web of mystery!
Big fish alone escape from thee!
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Roche, James Jeffrey. “The Net of Law.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/roche_jj/16/.
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Roche, James Jeffrey. “The Net of Law.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/roche_jj/16/.
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