Very nice. (However, as I’m suffering a bad tooth issue right now, words like ‘root’ and ‘crown’ aren’t exactly resonating :-(
Here’s one of my favorite poems:
The Donkey
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 devil’s walking parody
On all four-footed things.
The tattered outlaw of the earth,
Of ancient crooked will;
Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,
I keep my secret still.
Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.
-G. K. Chesterton
“Very nice. (However, as I’m suffering a
bad tooth issue right now, words like
‘root’ and ‘crown’ aren’t exactly resonating :-(
Here’s one of my favorite poems:
The Donkey
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 devil’s walking parody
On all four-footed things.
The tattered outlaw of the earth,
Of ancient crooked will;
Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,
I keep my secret still.
Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.
-G. K. Chesterton”
___Jamestown1630
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* I’m sorry about your suffering with the bad tooth.
* I hope you can get some relief soon.
* Thanks for The Donkey.
* C.K. Chesterton was a highly intelligent man.
He was appreciated by many.
JAG
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PS
C.K. Chesterton:
He was importantly and consistently
on the side of the angels.
Behind the Johnsonian fancy-dress,
so reassuring to the British public,
he concealed the most serious and
revolutionary designs—concealing
them by exposure ... Chesterton’s
social and economic ideas...were
fundamentally Christian and Catholic.
He did more, I think, than any man
of his time—and was able to do more
than anyone else, because of his
particular background, development
and abilities as a public
performer—to maintain the existence
of the important minority in the
modern world. He leaves behind a
permanent claim upon our loyalty,
to see that the work that he did
in his time is continued in ours
.[8]___Wiki