B stands for Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc has to be amongst my favourite poets I particularly liked his funny poems, here is one of them it is called.......

 Rebecca Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably.

A trick that everyone abhors

 In little girls is slamming doors

A wealthy banker's little daughter

 Who lived in Palace green, Bayswater

 (By name Rebecca Offendort)

 Was given to this furious sport

She would deliberately go

 And slam the doors like billy-o!

to make her Uncle Jacob start, 

She was not really bad at heart,

But only rather rude and wild; 

She was an aggravating child....

It happened that a marble bust

 of Abraham was standing just

   Above the door this little lamb

 Had carefully prepared to slam,

And down it came! It knocked her flat!

 It laid her out ! She looked like that.

Her funeral sermon (which was long

 And followed by a sacred song)

 Mentioned her virtues, it is true,

 But dwelt upon her vices too,

 And showed the dreadful end of one

 Who goes and slams the door for fun.

Hilaire  Belloc  1870 -1953  was an Anglo French writer and historian. He was also a known orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier, and political activist.

 His most enduring legacy must be his verse, particularly his humorous 'Cautionary Tales For Children. A great favourite with our family which included 'Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies' and was eventually burned to death. I was tempted to include this too but time and space disallows! So more of Hilaire Belloc at a later date!

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