[p iii] The So-Called Human Race
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[p iii] The So-Called Human Race
by Bert Leston Taylor
Arranged, with an Introduction, by Henry B. Fuller
New York 1922 Alfred · A · Knopf
[p iv] COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc. Published, March, 1922 Second Printing, April, 1922
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[p v] WORLD WITHOUT END
Once upon a summer’s night Mused a mischief-making sprite, Underneath the leafy hood Of a fairy-haunted wood. Here and there, in light and shade, Ill-assorted couples strayed: “Lord,” said Puck, in elfish glee, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” Now he sings the self-same tune Underneath an older moon. Life to him is, plain enough, Still a game of blind man’s buff. If we listen we may hear Puckish laughter always near, And the elf’s apostrophe, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” B. L. T.