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The So-called Human Race

by Bert Leston Taylor

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Arranged, with an Introduction, by
Henry B. Fuller

Copyright, 1922, By — Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Published, March, 1922 Second Printing, April, 1922

Set up and electrotyped by J. J. Little & Ives Co., New York, N. Y.
Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y.
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N. Y.


MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

World Without End

Once upon a summer’s night
Mused a mischief-making sprite,
Underneath the leafy hood
Of a fairy-haunted wood.
Here and there, in light and shade,
Ill-assorted couples strayed:
“Lord,” said Puck, in elfish glee,
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

Now he sings the self-same tune
Underneath an older moon.
Life to him is, plain enough,
Still a game of blind man’s buff.
If we listen we may hear
Puckish laughter always near,
And the elf’s apostrophe,
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

B. L. T.

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