Poem by Hilaire Belloc

On Torture: A Public Singer

Torture will give a dozen pence or more 
To keep a drab from bawling at his door. 
The public taste is quite a different thing- 
Torture is positively paid to sing.

1. The South Country
2. The Tiger
3. Time Cures All
4. Algernon
5. Heretics All

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