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The Hope Of The Streets, By: G.K. Chesterton

February 6, 2023 by Editors

The Hope Of The Streets, By: G.K. Chesterton

    The still sweet meadows shimmered: and I stood
    And cursed them, bloom of hedge and bird of tree,
    And bright and high beyond the hunch-backed wood
    The thunder and the splendour of the sea.

    Give back the Babylon where I was born,
    The lips that gape give back, the hands that grope,
    And noise and blood and suffocating scorn
    An eddy of fierce faces–and a hope

    That ‘mid those myriad heads one head find place,
    With brown hair curled like breakers of the sea,
    And two eyes set so strangely in the face
    That all things else are nothing suddenly.

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