Every so often I do a deep read with a particular well-known Author and GK Chesterton has been on my next list for some time. I have found in favorite cozy comfort mysteries such as Father Brown and with his friends such as Dorothy Sayers in their mystery writers club. However, I had not discovered Chesterton as a poet and Hoopla Digital allowed me this little visit into an out of print Chesterton Calendar quote and its more current version on an Imaginative Conservative blog.
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“Gold Leaves”
By G.K. Chesterton|November 4th, 2017|Categories: G.K. Chesterton, Poetry
Gold leaves! I come to autumn,
When all the leaves are gold;
Grey hairs and golden leaves cry out
The year and I are old.
In youth, I sought the prince of men,
Captain in cosmic wars,
Our Titan, even the weeds would show
Defiant, to the stars.
But now a great thing in the street
Seems any human nod,
Where shift in strange democracy
The million masks of God.
In youth, I sought the golden flower
Hidden in wood or wold,
But I come to autumn,
When all the leaves are gold.
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