Judge Somers

Biography
Somers was a self-professed "erudite" lawyer and town judge. He was one of A.D. Blood's advisors in his campaign against John Cabanis. Not to be confused with the Circuit Judge. Possibly related to Jonathan Swift Somers.

Poem Text
How does it happen, tell me, That I who was most erudite of lawyers, Who knew Blackstone and Coke Almost by heart, who made the greatest speech The court-house ever heard, and wrote A brief that won the praise of Justice Breese How does it happen, tell me, That I lie here unmarked, forgotten, While Chase Henry, the town drunkard, Has a marble block, topped by an urn Wherein Nature, in a mood ironical, Has sown a flowering weed?

Mentions

 * Chase Henry

Mentioned by

 * Mrs. Charles Bliss
 * Penniwit, the Artist
 * Jeduthan Hawley
 * Imanuel Ehrenhardt
 * The Spooniad