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The So-Called
Human Race
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BOOKS BY
BERT LESTON TAYLOR
A PENNY WHISTLE
THE SO-CALLED HUMAN RACE
THE EAST WINDOW
(Fall, 1922)
And others in a uniform collected edition, to be ready later.
New York: Alfred · A · Knopf
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The So-Called
Human Race
by
Bert Leston Taylor
Arranged, with an Introduction, by
Henry B. Fuller
New York 1922
Alfred · A · Knopf
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COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.
Published, March, 1922
Second Printing, April, 1922
Set up and electrotyped by J. J. Little & Ives Co., New York, N. Y.
Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y.
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N. Y.
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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WORLD WITHOUT END
Once upon a summer’s night
Mused a mischief-making sprite,
Underneath the leafy hood
Of a fairy-haunted wood.
Here and there, in light and shade,
Ill-assorted couples strayed:
“Lord,” said Puck, in elfish glee,
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
Now he sings the self-same tune
Underneath an older moon.
Life to him is, plain enough,
Still a game of blind man’s buff.
If we listen we may hear
Puckish laughter always near,
And the elf’s apostrophe,
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
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