Twenty

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Twenty, by Stella Benson
E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Susan Lucy, and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders
Almost all the verses in this book have appeared before, the majority of them included in two books, I Pose and This is the End . Messrs. Macmillan, who published these, have been kind in raising no objection to re-publication. I have also to thank the Editors of the Athenæum , Everyman , and the Pall Mall Gazette for allowing me to reprint verses.
The title of the book has no reference to the writer’s age.
S.B.

CHRISTMAS, 1917
A key no thief can steal, no time can rust;
A faery door, adventurous and golden;
A palace, perfect to our eyes—Ah must
Our eyes be holden?
Has the past died before this present sin?