Poem by Hilaire Belloc

The Scorpion

The Scorpion is as black as soot,
He dearly loves to bite;
He is a most unpleasant brute
To find in bed at night.

1. To the Balliol Men Still in Africa
2. Stanzas Written on Battersea Bridge during a South-Westerly Gale
3. Sarah Byng, Who Could Not Read and Was Tossed into a Thorny Hedge by a Bull
4. To Dives
5. The Fanatic

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