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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
| February 22, 2006 |
Misc.
(Published in Tremendous Trifles, Methuen and Co Ltd, London, 1909. Originally appeared in the DAILY NEWS, November 4, 1905.) I remember one splendid morning, all blue and silver, in the summer holidays when I reluctantly tore myself away from the task of doing...
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
| February 22, 2006 |
Misc.
There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand Than the...
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
| February 22, 2006 |
Misc.
PREFACEI have been asked to put forward in pamphlet form this rather hasty essay as it appeared in “Nash’s Magazine”; and I do so by the kind permission of the editor. The rather chaotic quality of its journalism it is now impossible to alter. The...
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
| February 22, 2006 |
Misc.
When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The...
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
| February 22, 2006 |
Misc.
“What of vile dust?” the preacher said. Methought the whole world woke,The dead stone lived beneath my foot, And my whole body spoke.”You, that play tyrant to the dust, And stamp its wrinkled face,This patient star that flings you not Far into...
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