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Title: Twenty
Author: Stella Benson
Release Date: June 17, 2004 [eBook #12643]
Language: English
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TWENTY
BY
STELLA BENSON
Author of "This Is the End," "I Pose"
1918
PREFACE
Almost all the verses in this book have appeared before, the majority of them included in two books, _I Pose_ and _This is the End_. Messrs. Macmillan, who published these, have been kind in raising no objection to re-publication. I have also to thank the Editors of the _Athenaeum, Everyman_, and the _Pall Mall?Gazette_ for allowing me to reprint verses.
The title of the book has no reference to the writer's age.
S.B.
CONTENTS
PAGE
CHRISTMAS, 1917 1
THE SECRET DAY 3
SONG 6
THE ORCHARD 8
THANKS TO MY WORLD FOR THE LOAN OF A FAIR DAY 11
SONG 13
WORDS 15
REDNECK'S SONG 17
TO THE UNBORN 19
THE NEWER ZION 21
TWO WOMEN SING 26
THE WOMAN ALONE 28
THE INEVITABLE