POETIC DESCRIPTION of the VIGNETTE upon the TITLE PAGE

Said JUSTICE, "Man, I'd fain know what you weigh. "If weight, I spare you: if too light, I slay." Man leap'd the scale. It mounted. "On my word," (Said Justice,) "less than nothing!—where's my sword?" VIRTUE was there, and her small weight would try. The scale, unsunk, still kick'd the beam on high. MERCY, the whitest dove that ever flew, From CALV'RY fetch'd a twig of crimson hue: Aloft it sent the scale on t'other side. MAN smil'd: and JUSTICE own'd,—"I'm satisfied."