English Poetry. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Ecclesiastes. Гилберт Кит Честертон.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Гилберт Кит Честертон)

Ecclesiastes

There is one sin: to call a green leaf gray,
Whereat the sun in heaven shuddereth.
There is one blasphemy: for death to pray,
For God alone knoweth the praise of death.

There is one creed: ’’neath no world-terror’s wing
Apples forget to grow on apple-trees.
There is one thing is needful everything
The rest is vanity of vanities. 

Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s other poems:

1. Tribute to Gladstone
2. The New Fiction
3. On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes
4. Alliterativism
5. Confessional

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