BOOK I_Out of the Flame

OUT OF THE FLAME

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

TWENTIETH-CENTURY HARLEQUINADE

In collaboration with Edith Sitwell

(BLACKWELL, Oxford)

THE WINSTONBURG LINE

Political Satires

(HENDERSON, Charing Cross Road)

COCK-ROBIN

_IN PREPARATION_

A BOOK OF CHARACTERS

Short Stories and Sketches

DISCURSIONS

Essays on Travel, Art and Life

[Frontispiece: _The Author_ _from the sculpture by Frank Dobson_]

OUT OF THE FLAME

OSBERT SITWELL

LONDON

GRANT RICHARDS LTD.

1923

Printed in Great Britain at

_The Mayflower Press, Plymouth._

William Brendon & Son, Ltd.

CONTENTS

BOOK I

OUT OF THE FLAME

Two Mexican Pieces--

I. Song

II. Maxixe

Out of the Flame

Two Dances--

I. Country Dance

II. Fox Trot--When Solomon met the Queen of Sheba

Two Garden Pieces--

I. Neptune in Chains

II. Fountains

Parade

English Gothic

The Backward Child

Nursery Rhyme--The Rocking-Horse

Two Mythological Poems--

I. The Jealous Goddess

II. Bacchanalia