Love's Trappist
G. K. Chesterton
1874 to 1936
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There is a place where lute and lyre are broken,
Where scrolls are torn and on a wild wind go,
Where tablets stand wiped naked for a token,
Where wither and the daisies grow.
Lo: I too join brotherhood of silence,
I am Love's Trappist and you in vain,
For man through Love's gate, even as Death's gate,
Goeth alone and comes not back again.
here I pause, look back across the threshold.
Cry my brethren, though the world be old,
Prophets and sages, questioners and doubters,
O world, old world, the best ne'er been told!