Hilaire Belloc

Of three in One and One in three / My narrow mind would doubting be / Till Beauty, Grace and Kindness met

Who played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing his Sister was reprimanded by his Father. / Young Algernon, the Doctor's Son, / Was playing with a Loaded Gun.

I / Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold / And very Regent of the untroubled sky,

Because my faltering feet may fail to dare / The first descendant of the steps of Hell / Give me the Word in time that triumphs there.

The nicest child I ever knew / Was Charles Augustus Fortescue. / He never lost his cap, or tore

My jolly fat host with your face all a-grin, / Come, open the door to us, let us come in. / A score of stout fellows who think it no sin

Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle. / His Uncle came upon Franklin Hyde / Carousing in the Dirt.

Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions / When George's Grandmamma was told / That George had been as good as gold,

Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black. / Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; / He held the Human Race in Scorn,

Sally is gone that was so kindly, / Sally is gone from Ha'nacker Hill / And the Briar grows ever since then so blindly;