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Hilaire Belloc
1870 - 1953
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Lines To A Don
Remote and ineffectual Don / That dared attack my Chesterton, / With that poor weapon, half-impelled,
Lord Finchley
Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light / Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right! / It is the business of the wealthy man
Lord Lundy
Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career / Lord Lundy from his earliest years / Was far too freely moved to Tears.
On The Ladies Of Pixton
Three Graces; and the mother were a Grace, / But for profounder meaning in her face.
On The Little God
Of all the gods that gave me all their glories / To-day there deigns to walk with me but one. / I lead him by the hand and tell him stories.
On Torture: A Public Singer
Torture will give a dozen pence or more / To keep a drab from bawling at his door. / The public taste is quite a different thing
On Two Ministers Of State
Lump says that Caliban's of gutter breed, / And Caliban says Lump's a fool indeed, / And Caliban and Lump and I are all agreed.
On Vital Statistics
Ill fares the land to hast'ning ills a prey (1) / Where wealth accumulates and men decay.' / But how much more unfortunate are those
Rebecca
Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably / A trick that everyone abhors / In little girls is slamming doors.
Talking (And Singing) Of The Nordic Man
I / Behold, my child, the Nordic man, / And be as like him, as you can;
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