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 GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON

Fools' For I also had my hour;

One far fierce hour and sweet: There was a shout about my ears,

And palms before my feet.

RALPH HODGSON

952 The Bells of Heaven

S WOULD ring the bells of Heaven The x wildest peal for years, If Parson lost his senses And people came to theirs, And he and they together Knelt down with angry prayers For tamed and shabby tigers, And dancing dogs and bears, And wretched, blind pit ponies, And little hunted hares.

��WALTER DE LA MARE 955 An E'pita'ph

"ERE lies a most beautiful lady,

Light of step and heart was she: I think she was the most beautiful lady That ever was in the West Country. But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;

However rare, rare it be; And when I crumble who shall remember

This lady of the West Country?

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