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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

TO DIVES

STANZAS WRITTEN ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE DURING A SOUTH-WESTERLY GALE

THE SOUTH COUNTRY

THE FANATIC

NOEL

THE EARLY MORNING

THE BIRDS

OUR LORD AND OUR LADY

IN A BOAT

COURTESY

THE NIGHT

THE LEADER

A BIVOUAC

TO THE BALLIOL MEN STILL IN AFRICA

VERSES TO A LORD

THE REBEL

THE PROPHET LOST IN THE HILLS AT EVENING

SONG

THE RING

CUCKOO!

THE MIRROR

THE LITTLE SERVING MAID

THE END OF THE ROAD

AUVERGNAT

DRINKING SONG

DRINKING DIRGE

WEST SUSSEX DRINKING SONG

A BALLAD ON SOCIOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

AN ORACLE

HERETICS ALL

THE DEATH AND LAST CONFESSION OF WANDERING PETER

DEDICATORY ODE

DEDICATION ON THE GIFT OF A BOOK TO A CHILD

DEDICATION OF A CHILD'S BOOK OF IMAGINARY TALES

HOMAGE

FILLE-LA-HAINE

THE MOON'S FUNERAL

THE HAPPY JOURNALIST

LINES TO A DON

NEWDIGATE POEM

THE YELLOW MUSTARD

ON HYGIENE

THE FALSE HEART

SONNET UPON GOD, THE WINE GIVER

THE POLITICIAN OR THE IRISH EARLDOM

SHORT BALLAD AND POSTSCRIPT ON CONSOLS

VERSES BY H. BELLOC



VERSES

By
HILAIRE BELLOC

With an Introduction
By
JOYCE KILMER

NEW YORK
LAURENCE J. GOMME
1916


Copyright, 1916, By
Laurence J. Gomme


VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY
BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK


To

JOHN SWINNERTON PHILLIMORE

A DEDICATION
WITH THIS BOOK OF VERSE

When you and I were little tiny boys
We took a most impertinent delight
In foolish, painted and misshapen toys
That hidden mothers brought to us at night.
Do you that have the child’s diviner part—
The dear content a love familiar brings—
Take these imperfect toys, till in your heart
They too attain the form of perfect things?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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