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Rh well borne out by the book itself, which shows a current of consistent improvement from 1905 to 1917.

One of the most significant signs of this improvement seems to me to be the charming Song, which was written sometime in 1917:

I do not suggest that this piece is in itself of vast importance or by any means the best thing that Mr. Squire has written. But compare it with what he was writing in 1912:

Than farthest stars more distant,
 * A mile more,
 * A mile more,

A voice cries on insistent:
 * 'You may smile more if you will;

You may sing too and spring too;
 * But numb at last
 * And dumb at last,

Whatever port you cling to,
 * You must come at last to a hill.