On Righteous Indignation
G. K. Chesterton
1874 to 1936
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When Adam went from Paradise
He saw the and ran;
The dreadful shape, the new device,
The end of Paradise,
And saw what Peril is and Price,
And knew he was a man.
When Adam from Paradise,
He turned him back and cried
a little flower from Paradise;
There came no flower Paradise;
The woods were dark in Paradise,
And a bird replied.
For only comfort or contempt,
jest or great reward,
Over the walls of Paradise,
flameless gates of Paradise,
The dumb shut doors of Paradise,
God flung the flaming sword.
It burns the that holds it
More than the skull it scores;
It doubles like a snake and stings,
Yet he whose hand it swings
He is the most masterful things,
A scorner of the stars.