(Today is the anniversary of the death of William Ewart Gladstone, anti-Catholic and turncoat. Beginning as a High Tory, he became a Liberal enemy of the Constitution. GKC, in his misguided politics, was a Liberal and admired Gladstone for reasons I can't fathom.)
MAY 19th
GLADSTONE DIED
Lift up your heads: in life, in death,
God knoweth his head was high;
Quit we the coward’s broken breath
Who watched a strong man die.
Oh, young ones of a darker day,
In Art’s wan colours clad,
Whose very love and hate are grey—
Whose very sin is sad,
Pass on; one agony long drawn
Was merrier than your mirth,
When hand-in-hand came death and dawn
And spring was on the earth.
‘To Them that Mourn.’
Chesterton, G. K.. The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books] (Kindle Locations 44187-44200). Catholic Way Publishing. Kindle Edition.
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