GREYBEARDS AT PLAY

Literature And Art For Old Gentlemen

Rhymes and Sketches by

GILBERT CHESTERTON

London: R. Brimley Johnson
8, York Buildings, Adelphi

1900







A DEDICATION

TO E.C.B.

He was, through boyhood's storm and shower,
My best, my nearest friend;
We wore one hat, smoked one cigar,
One standing at each end.

We were two hearts with single hope,
Two faces in one hood;