The thin soap slips And slithers like a shark under the ships. My toes are on the soap-dish--that's the effect Of my huge storms; an iron steamer's wrecked. The soap slides round and round; He's biting the old sailors, I expect.... _I wonder what it feels like to be drowned?_ THE LAST POST The bugler sent a call of high romance-- "Lights out! Lights out!" to the deserted square. On the thin brazen notes he threw a prayer: "God, if it's _this_ for me next time in France, O spare the phantom bugle as I lie Dead in the gas and smoke and roar of guns, Dead in a row with other broken ones, Lying so stiff and still under the sky-- Jolly young Fusiliers, too good to die ..." The music ceased, and the red sunset flare Was blood about his head as he stood there. INDEX _Names of Authors are in Capitals. Titles of Poems are in Italics._ ABERCROMBIE, LASCELLES, xxiv, 174-177 "A. E.," xvii, 76-77 _Aftermath_, 192 ALDINGTON, RICHARD, 216-219 _All-Souls_, 44 _An Athlete Dying Young, To_, 38 _An Old Fogey, To_, 45 _Arab Love-Song, An_, 35 _Astrologer's Song, An_, 66 _At the British Museum_, 218 _A Traveller, To_, 72 AUSTIN, ALFRED, xii, 5, 27 _Ballad of Hell, A_, 22 _Ballad of London, A_, 69 _Ballad of the Billycock, The_, 90 _Barrel-Organ, The_, 154 _Beautiful Lie the Dead_, 78 _Beauty's a Flower_, 100 _Before_, 11 _Beg-Innish_, 95 BELLOC, HILAIRE, 86-89 BINYON, LAURENCE, 79-80 _Birdcatcher, The_, 144 _Blackbird, The_, 10 _Blind Pedlar, The_, 220 _Bowl of Roses, A_, 11 BRIDGES, ROBERT, 5-7 _Broken Song, A_, 99 BROOKE, RUPERT, xxiii, 193-200 _Bugler, The_, 208 _By-the-Way_, 211 CAMPBELL, JOSEPH, 165-166 _Cap and Bells, The_, 54 CHESSON, NORA (_see Nora Hopper_) CHESTERTON, G. K., xxiii, 110-119 _Choice, The_, 131 _Clair de Lune_, 102 _Cock-Crow_, 138 COLUM, PADRAIC, xvii, 162-165 _Complaint_, 219 _Connaught Lament, A_, 97 _Consecration, A_, 126 _Conundrum of the Workshops, The_, 63 CORNFORD, FRANCES, 184-186 _Daisy_,32 _Dauber_, xxii, 128 DAVIDSON, JOHN, 22-27 DAVIES, W. H., xxiii, xxv, 83-86 _Days Too Short_, 84 DEANE, ANTHONY C., 89-93 _Death and the Fairies_, 212 DE LA MARE, WALTER, xxiii, 105-110 _Donkey, The_, 119 DOUGLAS, ALFRED, 80-81 DOWSON, ERNEST, 73-76 _Drake's Drum_, 49 _Dream, A_, 79 _Dreamers_, 190 DRINKWATER, JOHN, xxiv, 170-171 DUNSANY, EDWARD LORD, 133-136 _Dust_,198 _Dying-Swan, The_, 82 _Epilogue_, 161 _Epitaph_, 42 _Epitaph, An_, 107 _Estrangement_, 30 _Eve_, 140 _Evening Clouds_, 214 _Evening in England, An_, 213 _Everlasting Mercy, The_, xxii _Every Thing_, 146 _Example, The_, 86 _Fifty Faggots_,137 FLECKER, JAMES ELROY, 178-179 _Fleet Street_, 183 FLINT, F. S., 205-206 FREEMAN, JOHN, 181-182 GEORGIANS, THE, xi, xxiii-xxiv _Germany, To_, 225 GIBSON, W. W., xxiii, xxv, 119-125 GILBERT, W. S., xiv _Going and Staying_, 4 GORE-BOOTH, EVA, 98-99 _Grandeur_, 201