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.
CONTENTS
CHRISTMAS, 1917
A key no thief can steal, no time can rust;