A FOOL THERE WAS

BY

PORTER EMERSON BROWNE


"A Fool there was and he made his prayer--
(Even as you and I.)
To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair--
( We called her the woman who did not care)
But the fool he called her his lady fair--
(Even as you and I.)"


ILLUSTRATED BY
EDMUND MAGRATH
AND
W. W. FAWCETT


1909




TO
ROBERT HILLIARD.