14 October 2019

14 October, A Chesterton Calendar

OCTOBER 14th 

BATTLE OF HASTINGS
 
Gored on the Norman gonfalon 
The Golden Dragon died, 
We shall not wake with ballad strings 
The good time of the smaller things, 
 We shall not see the holy kings 
 Ride down the Severn side. 

'Ballad of Alfred.'

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