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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576180" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fair Sisters of Law</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some say the Lady Justice binds her eyes<br>To fairly judge, impartiality<br>The trait that makes her truly fair and wise.<br>Oblivious of nationality, <br>Financial status, creed, or social class-<br>Whatever makes a woman, man, or child<br>Distinct from any other in the mass-<br>The Lady is not easily beguiled.<br>The law, the facts, the testimony true, <br>The witnesses' descriptions, line by line, <br>And learned counselors, who try to woo<br>That Lady with demeanor palatine, <br>Are all she knows: These with her scales she weighs.<br>Accused, the prison's prey is brought to court<br>To wait for Justice, with her shrouded gaze, <br>To lift her scales and measure truth's report.<br>If Lady Justice finds one faultless still<br>Of doing wrong, of breaching legal walls, <br>The sound of freedom's chimes will send a thrill<br>Through watchers gathered in the hallowed halls.<br>A guilty verdict tolls a deathly knell<br>Or spells a sentence of imprisonment: <br>No sweetly ringing sound like freedom's bell, <br>But peals both fearful and magnificent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lady Justice will not abdicate<br>Her queenly throne, resolving to fulfill<br>The duty of determining the fate<br>Of those who come before her worthy will, <br>But liking not to stand alone, prefers<br>The Lady Mercy to participate<br>And share the jurisdiction that is hers: <br>More wisely, thus, the two cooperate.<br>For though the eyes of Justice wear a wrap<br>To block her view of inequalities, <br>Her sister suffers no such handicap: <br>She sees and disregards frivolities.<br>She sees the disadvantaged, wretched soul, <br>Demoralized and tortured by desire<br>To leave the torment of his hellish hole, <br>Who sinks, instead, more deeply in the mire.<br>A foolish youth stands humble and afraid<br>Before the bar of statutory blame.<br>His adolescent peccadilloes fade<br>When Mercy grants new honor to his name.<br>A guilty harlot in her gaudy dress<br>Deserves what Lady Justice might decree.<br>But Mercy sees a victim of duress, <br>Says, 'Go, and sin no more, ' then sets her free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In perfect beauty, side by side they stand: <br>The Lady Justice with her covered eyes<br>And golden balance in her slender hand, <br>Propriety embodied, fair and wise; <br>And lovely Lady Mercy, seeing all<br>Through clear, unfettered eyes of lenity, <br>Compassionate and gentle, standing tall, <br>With kindly smiles of sweet serenity.<br>With mutual respect, they are prepared.<br>Each balancing the other's prudent choice, <br>The sisters speak, the verdict is declared, <br>Like harmonizing music, with one voice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Yen+Cress">Yen Cress</a><div class=q>
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To fairly judge, impartiality
The trait that makes her truly fair and wise.
Oblivious of nationality, 
Financial status, creed, or social class-
Whatever makes a woman, man, or child
Distinct from any other..."></div>
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