Hilaire Belloc Poems

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1.
On Torture: A Public Singer

2.
The Telephone

3.
Time Cures All

4.
Because My Faltering Feet

Because my faltering feet may fail to dare
The first descendant of the steps of Hell
Give me the Word in time that triumphs there.
I too must pass into the misty hollow
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5.
Henry King

The Chief Defect of Henry King
Was chewing little bits of String.
At last he swallowed some which tied
Itself in ugly Knots inside.
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6.
The Marmozet

7.
On The Little God

8.
Song

Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening year

You wear the morning like your dress
And are with mastery crown’d;
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9.
Ballade To Our Lady Of Czestochowa

I

Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold
And very Regent of the untroubled sky,
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10.
On Vital Statistics

Ill fares the land to hast'ning ills a prey (1)
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.'
But how much more unfortunate are those
Where wealth declines and population grows!
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