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?