Lucas, Edward V.: Swollen-headed William: after the German (London, 1915)

io. THE STORY OF COLLECTING WILLIAM.


William’s rare aesthetic taste
Is astonishingly chaste.
Nothing that is really right
Fails to move him to delight;
Such as scenes of desolation
Due to lethal aviation;

Such as landscapes (like to
these)
Marking dark catastrophes,
Showing cities bombed and
burning,
Famous once for light
and learning.



Every day his exhibition
Has another choice addition,
And the latest of these
themes
Is a view of ruined Rheims.


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