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VERSES BY H. BELLOC




  VERSES

  _By_

  HILAIRE BELLOC

  _With an Introduction_

  _By_

  JOYCE KILMER

  [Illustration]

  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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