To call them twelve trees would be nothing unkind;
They were crooked and green; they were swayed by the wind.
To an assistant district attorney who proved nothing but his own desire
for notoriety and his ability to make a noise and keep the Court of
Appeals busy. Those who heard him sum up the first important case he
ever had, and the one on which rests his reputation (for brutality and
unfairness), may remember and see the application to a certain part of
his closing address:
He persecutes the charming “Bell,”
His “brazen tongue” has now full “swing,”
With clamorous lies he “told” this “knell,”
Produce, produce, produce the—“ring.”