On Righteous Indignation
G. K. Chesterton
1874 to 1936
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When Adam went from Paradise
The flameless gates of Paradise,
There came no flower from Paradise;
And knew he was a man.
And not a bird replied.
For only comfort or contempt,
For jest or great reward,
For a little flower from Paradise;
He turned him back and cried
He saw the Sword and ran;
Over the walls of Paradise,
It burns the hand that holds it
The woods were dark in Paradise,
Yet he in whose hand it swings
A scorner of the stars.
The dumb shut doors of Paradise,
More than the skull it scores;
The dreadful shape, the new device,
The pointed end of Paradise,
It doubles like a snake and stings,
He is the most masterful of things,
And saw what Peril is and Price,
God flung the flaming sword.
When Adam went from Paradise,
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