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Title: The Wild Knight and Other Poems

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

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THE WILD KNIGHT

AND OTHER POEMS

BY

GILBERT CHESTERTON

1900

NOTE

My thanks are due to the Editors of the _Outlook_ and the _Speaker_ for
the kind permission they have given me to reprint a considerable number
of the following poems. They have been selected and arranged rather with
a view to unity of spirit than to unity of time or value; many of them
being juvenile.

CONTENTS

BY THE BABE UNBORN

THE WORLD'S LOVER

THE SKELETON

A CHORD OF COLOUR

THE HAPPY MAN

THE UNPARDONABLE SIN

A NOVELTY

ULTIMATE

THE DONKEY

THE BEATIFIC VISION

THE HOPE OF THE STREETS

ECCLESIASTES

SONG OF THE CHILDREN

THE FISH

GOLD LEAVES

THOU SHALT NOT KILL A CERTAIN EVENING

A MAN AND HIS IMAGE

THE MARINER

THE TRIUMPH OF MAN

CYCLOPEAN

JOSEPH

MODERN ELFLAND

ETERNITIES

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

ALONE

KING'S CROSS STATION

THE HUMAN TREE

TO THEM THAT MOURN

THE OUTLAW

BEHIND

THE END OF FEAR

THE HOLY OF HOLIES

THE MIRROR OF MADMEN

E. C. B.

THE DESECRATERS

AN ALLIANCE

THE ANCIENT OF DAYS

THE LAST MASQUERADE

THE EARTH'S SHAME

VANITY

THE LAMP POST

THE PESSIMIST

A FAIRY TALE

A PORTRAIT

FEMINA CONTRA MUNDUM

TO A CERTAIN NATION

THE PRAISE OF DUST

THE BALLAD OF THE BATTLE OF GIBEON

'VULGARISED'

THE BALLAD OF GOD-MAKERS

AT NIGHT

THE WOODCUTTER

ART COLOURS

THE TWO WOMEN

THE WILD KNIGHT

_Another tattered rhymster in the ring,
With but the old plea to the sneering schools,
That on him too, some secret night in spring
Came the old frenzy of a hundred fools

To make some thing: the old want dark and deep,
The thirst of men, the hunger of the stars,
Since first it tinged even the Eternal's sleep,
With monstrous dr