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The End Of Fear, By: G.K. Chesterton

January 27, 2023 by Editors

The End Of Fear, By: G.K. Chesterton

    Though the whole heaven be one-eyed with the moon,
    Though the dead landscape seem a thing possessed,
    Yet I go singing through that land oppressed
    As one that singeth through the flowers of June.

    No more, with forest-fingers crawling free
    O’er dark flint wall that seems a wall of eyes,
    Shall evil break my soul with mysteries
    Of some world-poison maddening bush and tree.

    No more shall leering ghosts of pimp and king
    With bloody secrets veiled before me stand.
    Last night I held all evil in my hand
    Closed: and behold it was a little thing.

    I broke the infernal gates and looked on him
    Who fronts the strong creation with a curse;
    Even the god of a lost universe,
    Smiling above his hideous cherubim.

    And pierced far down in his soul’s crypt unriven
    The last black crooked sympathy and shame,
    And hailed him with that ringing rainbow name
    Erased upon the oldest book in heaven.

    Like emptied idiot masks, sin’s loves and wars
    Stare at me now: for in the night I broke
    The bubble of a great world’s jest, and woke
    Laughing with laughter such as shakes the stars.

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