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The Last Masquerade, By: G.K. Chesterton

February 10, 2023 by Editors

The Last Masquerade, By: G.K. Chesterton

    A wan new garment of young green
    Touched, as you turned your soft brown hair
    And in me surged the strangest prayer
    Ever in lover’s heart hath been.

    That I who saw your youth’s bright page,
    A rainbow change from robe to robe,
    Might see you on this earthly globe,
    Crowned with the silver crown of age.

    Your dear hair powdered in strange guise,
    Your dear face touched with colours pale:
    And gazing through the mask and veil
    The mirth of your immortal eyes.

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