Talk:G. K. Chesterton bibliography

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this is a poem by G. K. chesterton

== Ballad of Suicide ==

The gallows in my garden, people say,

Is new and neat and adequately tall; I tie the noose on in a knowing way

As one that knots his necktie for a ball; But just as all the neighbours—on the wall— Are drawing a long breath to shout "Hurray!"

The strangest whim has seized me. . . . After all I think I will not hang myself to-day. To-morrow is the time I get my pay—

My uncle's sword is hanging in the hall— I see a little cloud all pink and grey—

Perhaps the rector's mother will not call— I fancy that I heard from Mr. Gall That mushrooms could be cooked another way—

I never read the works of Juvenal— I think I will not hang myself to-day. The world will have another washing-day;

The decadents decay; the pedants pall; And H.G. Wells has found that children play,

And Bernard Shaw discovered that they squall, Rationalists are growing rational— And through thick woods one finds a stream astray

So secret that the very sky seems small— I think I will not hang myself to-day.

ENVOI Prince, I can hear the trumpet of Germinal, The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way;

Even to-day your royal head may fall, I think I will not hang myself to-day