Poetry
G.K. Chesterton on Childlike Faith
This is the sort of book we like (For you and I are very small), With pictures stuck in anyhow, And hardly any words at all. You will not understand a word Of all the words, including mine; Never you trouble; you can see, And all directness is divine—…
Read MorePsalm 33 (Meditation)
His mouth forms, and breath adorns and lathes the hearts that see Earth’s armies sing a ten-stringed song as awe unstrings the warrior’s knee.
Read MoreThe Love That Burns
I”ve fallen out of love with him; this band”s become a fetter A quick glance back, the thought emerged I could have done much better Deferring hopes became as dust and settled round her soul Shadows stretched by sinking lights collapsed into the whole. And then one morn a sunbeam danced and flashed the gloom…
Read MoreFOREGLOW
It’s in His light where she sees light and beholds things as they are. With singled eye, her form grows bright, moon-bride to the Morning Star. No glory hers, no image fine without the Bridegroom’s light. As cross the sky He runs His course, burning towards His wedding night. When she’s complete, each…
Read MoreThe Truth Is Out There
Science and mathematics run parallel to reality. They symbolize it, they squint at it, but never encompass it. What an explosion would unsky the world and rock the bones of men into little white fragments if the veil were lifted and Truth’s fulness revealed. Only a new creation and a new type of man can…
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