Born in a Village near Paris in eighteen seventy and he went to the Reaper in nineteen fifty three <br />And in his most amazing life he was for awhile a British M P <br />But it is mostly as a great writer that he is remembered today <br />He may be dead for half of a century but his genius with us will stay. <br /> <br />He had feelings and he had humour he was everybodys poet <br />At poetry readings and literary gatherings lines from him young writers quote <br />A down to earth sort of a fellow though he scaled the heights of literary fame <br />One of literatures great characters Hilaire Belloc was his name <br /> <br />He lampooned the upper classes which hurt his literary career <br />Yet in death the fame of Hilaire Belloc is growing a little every year <br />In his Cautionary Tales and Children Verses mirth and humour does abound <br />Amongst the humorists of literature better than him not to be found. <br /> <br />Hilaire Belloc still a legend his works doesn't have a use by date <br />In the annals of prose and poetry he lives as an all time great <br />One of the great writers of his era in literarures golden time <br />And known to be as great as any when he was in his literary prime.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hilaire-belloc/
