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OUT AND ABOUT LONDON


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_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

NIGHTS IN LONDON


"Hundreds of books have been written about London, but few are as well
worth reading as this."--_London Times._

"Thomas Burke writes of London as Kipling wrote of India."--_Baltimore
Sun._

"A real book."--_New York Sun._

4th printing, $1.50

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS    NEW YORK

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OUT AND ABOUT LONDON

by

THOMAS BURKE

Author of "Limehouse Nights"
and "Nights In London"







[Illustration: Logo]

New York
Henry Holt and Company
1919

Copyright, 1919
by
Henry Holt and Company




                          1916

     _Lady, the world is old, and we are young.
       The world is old to-night and full of tears
     And tumbled dreams, and all its songs are sung,
       And echoes rise no more from the tombed years.
     Lady, the world is old, but we are young._

     _Once only shines the mellow moon so fair;
       One speck of Time is Love's Eternity.
     Once only can the stars so light your hair,
       And the night make your eyes my psaltery.
     Lady, the world is old. Love still is young._

     _Let us take hand ere