Front matter
Reading edition
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?