FOREWORD

If it were not for the hillocks
You'd think little of the hills;
The rivers would seem tiny
If it were not for the rills.
If you never saw the brushwood
You would under-rate the trees;
And so you see the purpose
Of such little rhymes as these.
Crowborough
1911

I. — NARRATIVE VERSES AND SONGS

SONGS OF THE ROAD

A HYMN OF EMPIRE