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New Zealand Tablet, 23 September 1920, Page 35

Oh! that I had £300,000 Invested in some strong security; A Midland Country House with formal grounds, A Town House and a House beside the sea. And one in Spain, and one in. Normandy,* And Friends innumerable at my call. And youth serenebut underneath it all One steadfast, passionate flame to nurture me. Then would I chuck for good my stinking trade Of writing tosh at Is 6d a quire! And spring, like burning Theseus undismayed, -tiight for the heavenly Peaks of my-desire.... But that s all over. Here’s the world again. Bring me the blotter. Pill my fountain-pen. Hilaire Belloc, in the New Statesman.