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" I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. "
Our Singular Strengths: Meditations for Librarians - Page 120
by Michael Gorman - 1998 - 196 pages
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde - Law - 1898 - 84 pages
...men, And outcasts always mourn. I KNOW not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong ; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong;...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde - History - 1898 - 80 pages
...men, And outcasts always mourn. I KNOW not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong ; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have' made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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The City Jail: A Symposium

Fay Lewis - Jails - 1903 - 120 pages
...Sin Had caught us in its snare. I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong;...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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Complete Works, Volume 5

Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 364 pages
...And outcasts always mourn. POEMS I KNOW not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong;...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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Prisons, Police and Punishment: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Treatment of ...

Edward Carpenter - Crime - 1905 - 153 pages
...Court of Criminal Appeal . . .151 / know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong ; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong,...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 33

English periodicals - 1905 - 618 pages
...condition of the mind. • I know not whether Law.s be right. Or whether Luwa be wronic ; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong...that each day is like a year, A year whose days are lung. But this I know, that every Lixw That Men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's...
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The Poems of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2

Oscar Wilde - Authors, Irish - 1906 - 176 pages
...,i..'v f I KNOW not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong', All that we know who lie in jail > Is that the wall is strong ; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. / But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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The Jungle

Upton Sinclair - Chicago (Ill.) - 1906 - 634 pages
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De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde - Prisons - 1908 - 212 pages
...And outcasts always mourn. V. I KNOW not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong;...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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The Poems of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde - Vellum printed books - 1908 - 366 pages
...men, And outcasts always mourn. I KNOW not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong ; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong...each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this I know, that every Law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life,...
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