CHESTERTON.
(For the N.Z. Tablet.) -:;/•- .;.. You have escaped your age, and not too soon ! Like some great trolling knight ■ that rides at noon, Between peaked fines that weighted winds have sowed Along a sunken Carolingian road, ' You have, in some dark " pass -'twixt land and sea, Met Time upcreeping from Eternity. Nor deigned to treat with him>as foe with foe, - But laughing down across, your saddlebow,'-- ' -;. Have drawn him to you by his matted hair, "" 5 And made him page it at your stirrup there.' •*— & Tl TV
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New Zealand Tablet, 26 August 1920, Page 33
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87CHESTERTON. New Zealand Tablet, 26 August 1920, Page 33
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