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Gilbert Keith Chesterton – The Escape

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We watched you building, stone by stone, The well-washed cells and well-washed graves We shall inhabit but not own When Britons ever shall be slaves; The water’s waiting in the trough, The tame oats sown are portioned free, There is Enough, and just Enough, And all is ready now but we. But you have not [...]

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton – The Mask of Socialism

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The chief aim of all honest Socialists just now is to prevent the coming of Socialism. I do not say it as a sneer, but, on the contrary, as a compliment; a compliment to their political instinct and public spirit. I admit it may be called an exaggeration; but there really is a sort of [...]

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton – The Evolution of the Prison

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I have never understood why it is that those who talk most about evolution, and talk it in the very age of fashionable evolutionism, do not see the one way in which evolution really does apply to our modern difficulty. There is, of course, an element of evolutionism in the universe; and I know no [...]

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton – The Church of the Servile State

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I confess I cannot see why mere blasphemy by itself should be an excuse for tyranny and treason; or how the mere isolated fact of a man not believing in God should be a reason for my believing in Him. But the rather spinsterish flutter among some of the old Freethinkers has put one tiny [...]

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton – Utopia of Usurers

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I. Art and Advertisement I propose, subject to the patience of the reader, to devote two or three articles to prophecy. Like all healthy-minded prophets, sacred and profane, I can only prophesy when I am in a rage and think things look ugly for everybody. And like all healthy-minded prophets, I prophesy in the hope [...]

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton – A Song of Swards

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“A drove of cattle came into a village called Swords; and was stopped by the rioters.”—Daily Paper. In the place called Swords on the Irish road It is told for a new renown How we held the horns of the cattle, and how We will hold the horns of the devils now Ere the lord [...]

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton – The Happy Man

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To teach the grey earth like a child,   To bid the heavens repent, I only ask from Fate the gift   Of one man well content. Him will I find: though when in vain   I search the feast and mart, The fading flowers of liberty,   The painted masks of art. I only find him at the [...]

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton – A Chord of Colour

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My Lady clad herself in grey,   That caught and clung about her throat; Then all the long grey winter day   On me a living splendour smote; And why grey palmers holy are,   And why grey minsters great in story, And grey skies ring the morning star,   And grey hairs are a crown of glory. My [...]

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton – The Skeleton

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Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No: I may not tell the best; Surely, friends, I might have guessed Death was but the good King’s jest,   It was hid so carefully.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton – The World’s Lover

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My eyes are full of lonely mirth:   Reeling with want and worn with scars, For pride of every stone on earth,   I shake my spear at all the stars. A live bat beats my crest above,   Lean foxes nose where I have trod, And on my naked face the love   Which is the loneliness of [...]

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