# Outlook Odes

Author: Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson), 1865-1924

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37085

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Outlook+Odes+Crosland&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

My dear Sir,-- You may think it unkind of me To interrupt the peaceful calm of your holiday With a poem about business. But I assure you, my dear sir, That I do so with the very best intentions, And at the call of what I consider to be duty. Duty, as you know, is a tremendous abstraction, And brings a man into all sorts of difficult corners. It was duty that took you into Parliament: Similarly it is duty that constrains me to Odes. When a man sees another man and pities him, It is the duty of the first man to let the other man know about it Delicately. I pity you, my dear Mr. Private Member, From the bottom of a bottomless heart. Many a time and oft in the course of my rambles Through the...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlook-odes-37085/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlook-odes-37085/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlook-odes-37085/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/outlook-odes-37085/chapters/4/index.md)