These are my happy penances. To make
Beauty without a Covenant; to take
Measure of time only because I know
That in death’s market-place I still shall owe
Service to beauty that shall not be done;
To know that beauty’s doctrine is begun
And makes a close in sacrifice; to find
In beauty’s courts the unappeasable mind.
HERE ENDS TIDES A BOOK OF POEMS
by John Drinkwater the Typography and Binding
arranged by Cyril William Beaumont Printed
on his Press in London and Published by
him at 75 Charing Cross Road in the
City of Westminster Completed
on the first day of September
MDCCCCXVII
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The Binding has been
executed by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe
[Illustration: back cover]
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