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by Hilaire Belloc

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3To Dives
  4. 4Stanzas Written on Battersea — Bridge During a South-Westerly Gale
  5. 5The South Country
  6. 6The Fanatic
  7. 7Noël
  8. 8The Early Morning
  9. 9The Birds
  10. 10Our Lord and Our Lady
  11. 11In a Boat
  12. 12Courtesy
  13. 13The Night
  14. 14The Leader
  15. 15A Bivouac
  16. 16To the Balliol Men Still in Africa
  17. 17Verses to a Lord
  18. 18The Rebel
  19. 19The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening
  20. 20Song
  21. 21The Ring
  22. 22Cuckoo!
  23. 23The Mirror
  24. 24The Little Serving Maid
  25. 25The End of the Road
  26. 26Auvergnat
  27. 27Drinking Song
  28. 28Drinking Dirge
  29. 29West Sussex Drinking Song
  30. 30A Ballad on Sociological Economics
  31. 31An Oracle
  32. 32Heretics All
  33. 33The Death and Last Confession of Wandering Peter
  34. 34Dedicatory Ode
  35. 35Dedication on the Gift of a Book to a Child
  36. 36Dedication of a Child’s Book of Imaginary Tales
  37. 37Homage
  38. 38Fille-la-Haine
  39. 39The Moon’s Funeral
  40. 40The Happy Journalist
  41. 41Lines to a Don
  42. 42Newdigate Poem
  43. 43The Yellow Mustard
  44. 44On Hygiene
  45. 45The False Heart
  46. 46Sonnet Upon God, the Wine Giver
  47. 47The Politician or the Irish Earldom
  48. 48Short Ballad and Postscript on Consols

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