Hilaire Belloc

It was my shame, and now it is my boast,
That I have loved you rather more than most

Sally is gone that was so kindly,
Sally is gone from Ha'nacker
And the Briar grows ever since then so blindly;
And ever since then the clapper is still…And the sweeps have fallen from Ha'nacker Mill

Lord Lundy from his earliest
Was far too freely moved to Tears
For instance if his Mother said,"Lundy
It's time to go to Bed

My jolly fat host with your face all a-grin,
Come, open the door to us, let us come in
A score of stout fellows who think it no
If they toast till they're hoarse, and drink till they spin,

May all my enemies go to hell,
Noel,
Noel,
Noel,

Hoar Time about the house betakes him slow,
Seeking an entry for his weariness
And in that dreadful company
And the sad night with silent footsteps go

The nicest child I ever
Was Charles Augustus Fortescue
He never lost his cap, or
His stockings or his pinafore:

Of Courtesy, it is much
Than Courage of Heart or Holiness,
Yet in my Walks it seems to
That the Grace of God is in Courtesy

The moon on the one hand, the dawn on the other;
The moon is my sister, the dawn is my brother
The moon on my left and the dawn on my right-My brother, good morning; my sister, good night

Do you remember an Inn,
Miranda
Do you remember an Inn
And the tedding and the spreading of the straw         for a bedding,

When people call this beast to mind,
They marvel more and
At such a little tail behind,
So large a trunk before

The species Man and
Are intimately linked;
The Marmozet survives as yet,
But Men are all extinct

The Dromedary is a cheerful bird:
I cannot say the same about the Kurd

Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His
His uncle came on Franklin
Carousing in the Dirt
He shook him hard from Side to

The Whale that wanders round the
Is not a table fish
You cannot bake or boil him
Nor serve him in a dish;

There was a Boy whose name was Jim;
His Friends were very good to him
They gave him Tea, and Cakes, and Jam,
And slices of delicious Ham,