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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 30
THE DOG TUPMAN 32
SAINT BRIDE 34
THE SLAVE OF GOD 36
TRUE PROMISES 40
THE CORNISHMAN 43
FIVE SMOOTH STONES