OTHER MATTERS, SACRED AND PROFANE

The World's Musqueteer: To Marshal Foch
We Are With France
Satan: 1920
Under Which King?
Man, the Destroyer
The Long Purposes of God
Ballade to a Departing God
Ballade of the Absent Guest
Tobacco Next
Ballade of the Paid Puritan
The Overworked Ghost
The Valiant Girls
Not Sour Grapes
Ballade of Reading Bad Books
Ballade of the Making of Songs
Ballade of Running Away with Life
To a Contemner of the Past




INTRODUCTION

One Spring day in London, long before the invention of freak verse and
Freudism, I was standing in front of the Cafe Royal in Regent Street
when there emerged from its portals the most famous young writer of the
day, the Poet about whose latest work "The Book Bills of Narcissus" all
literary London was then talking.