THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

8 January 1918

BITS FOR BREAKFAST.

In a review of the poetical output of the past year, Christopher Morley, himself a bard of no mean order, adds as a PS:

This is my favorite of the year’s poems—it is attributed to Aleister Crowley:

A sapper in sinking a well shaft

Was stricken to death with his fell shaft

Then Hindenburg said

He’s much better dead—

Kadaververwerfungagesellschaft.