StoryTitle("caps", "Introduction") ?>
Upon being asked by a reader whether the verses
contained in this book were true.
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PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And is it true? It is not True.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if it were it wouldn’t do,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For people such as me and you", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who pretty nearly all day long", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are doing something rather wrong.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Because if things were really so,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You would have perished long ago,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I would not have lived to write", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The noble lines that meet your sight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor B.T.B. survived to draw", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The nicest things you ever saw.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "—Hilaire Belloc.") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>