Hilaire Belloc (Хилар Беллок)

On Vital Statistics

Ill fares the land to hast’ning ills a prey (1) 
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.’ 
But how much more unfortunate are those 
Where wealth declines and population grows! 

(1)This line is execrable; and I note it.
I quote it as the faulty poet wrote it.

1. To the Balliol Men Still in Africa
2. The Rebel
3. Our Lord and Our Lady
4. Ballade of Modest Confession
5. Stanzas Written on Battersea Bridge during a South-Westerly Gale

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