The Donkey
G. K. Chesterton
1874 to 1936
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With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
One far fierce hour and sweet:
When fishes flew and forests walked
Fools! For I also had my hour;
The devil’s walking parody
And figs grew upon thorn,
The tattered outlaw of the earth,
Then surely I was born.
Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,
And palms before my feet.
I keep my secret still.
There was a shout about my ears,
Some moment when the moon was blood
Of ancient crooked will;
On all four-footed things.
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