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The Unpardonable Sin, By: G.K. Chesterton

March 10, 2023 by Editors

The Unpardonable Sin, By: G.K. Chesterton

    I do not cry, beloved, neither curse.
    Silence and strength, these two at least are good.
    He gave me sun and stars and ought He could,
    But not a woman’s love; for that is hers.

    He sealed her heart from sage and questioner–
    Yea, with seven seals, as he has sealed the grave.
    And if she give it to a drunken slave,
    The Day of Judgment shall not challenge her.

    Only this much: if one, deserving well,
    Touching your thin young hands and making suit,
    Feel not himself a crawling thing, a brute,
    Buried and bricked in a forgotten hell;

    Prophet and poet be he over sod,
    Prince among angels in the highest place,
    God help me, I will smite him on the face,
    Before the glory of the face of God.

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