C. K. CHESTERTON
From out of a timeless wisdom, Out of the deathless years, You challenged the world with laughter And bowed the world with tears. Ever was .life a knightly thing Filled full of high emprise; Truth and Honour and Chivalry Under.the splendid skies. Never the Right was hemmed with Wrong Through all the ways you trod. But one man reached to his scabbard And cried the name of God. And one man came to a Stable The kings had failed to secOne man knelt by a little Child And found humility. —X«la M«b<*
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 7
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95C. K. CHESTERTON Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 7
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