I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

This is evidenced in poems such as "West Sussex Drinking Song" "The South Country" and even the more melancholy "Ha'nacker Mill". G. Belloc placed a memorial tablet in the Cathedral at nearby Cambrai.

Among his best-remembered poems are "Jim who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion" and "Matilda who told lies and was burnt to death". Chesterton.