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The Triumph Of Man, By: G.K. Chesterton

March 8, 2023 by Editors

The Triumph Of Man, By: G.K. Chesterton

    I plod and peer amid mean sounds and shapes,
    I hunt for dusty gain and dreary praise,
    And slowly pass the dismal grinning days,
    Monkeying each other like a line of apes.

    What care? There was one hour amid all these
    When I had stripped off like a tawdry glove
    My starriest hopes and wants, for very love
    Of time and desolate eternities.

    Yea, for one great hour’s triumph, not in me
    Nor any hope of mine did I rejoice,
    But in a meadow game of girls and boys
    Some sunset in the centuries to be.

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