Mudcat Café message #1529099

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Thread #83258 Message #1529099
Posted By: Abby Sale
27-Jul-05 - 08:05 AM
Thread Name: Happy! - July 27 (Hilaire Belloc)
Subject: Happy! - July 27

Happy Birthday!

English poet,

Hilaire Belloc

born 7/27/1870 (in France)
(d1953)
He wrote:


          On Sussex Downs, where I was bred,
          In rains where autumn lanes are red,
          Where Arun tumbles in his bed
          And dusty gales go by.
  
                  "Sussex Drinking Song" (Tune set by Martyn Wyndham-Read to the
                   Irish rebel tune "The West's Awake")