NOTE

The Songs in this book are taken from “ The Flying Inn,” with the exception of “The Good Rich Man” and “The Song of the Strange Ascetic,” which are here included by kind permission of the editor of The New Witness, where they originally appeared.

CONTENTS

Page
The Englishman[9]
Wine and Water[11]
The Song against Grocers[15]
The Rolling English Road[20]
The Song of Quoodle[24]
Pioneers, O Pioneers[27]
The Logical Vegetarian[31]
“The Saracen's Head”[34]
The Good Rich Man[37]
The Song against Songs[42]
Me Heart[45]
The Song of the Oak[49]
The Road to Roundabout[53]
The Song of the Strange Ascetic[57]
The Song of Right and Wrong[60]
Who Goes Home?[63]

WINE, WATER, AND SONG

The Englishman

St. George he was for England,

And before he killed the dragon

He drank a pint of English ale

Out of an English flagon.