Gilbert Keith Chesterton - For a War Memorial

Gilbert Keith Chesterton - For a War Memorial

(SUGGESTED INSCRIPTION PROBABLY NOT SUGGESTED BY THE COMMITTEE) br br The hucksters haggle in the mart br The cars and carts go by; br Senates and schools go droning on; br For dead things cannot die. br br A storm stooped on the place of tombs br With bolts to blast and rive; br But these be names of many men br The lightning found alive. br br If usurers rule and rights decay br And visions view once more br Great Carthage like a golden shell br Gape hollow on the shore, br br Still to the last of crumbling time br Upon this stone be read br How many men of England died br To prove they were not dead.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-10

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