“Vast wings above the lambent waters brood
Of sullen day.”
James Joyce book Pomes Penyeach
Flood, p. 16
Pomes Penyeach (1927)
“[Dissents are] appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.”
Reported in "Keeping Politics out of the Court", The New York Times (December 9, 1984); quoted in The HarperCollins Dictionary of American Government and Politics (1992) by Jay M. Shafritz, p. 407
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