Versos English Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Happy Man

English poem

The Happy Man

by (1874–1936)

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To teach the grey earth like a child, To bid the heavens repent, I only ask from Fate the gift Of one man well content. Him will I find: though when in vain I search the feast and mart, The fading flowers of liberty, The painted masks of art. I only find him at the last, On one old hill where nod Golgotha's ghastly trinity- Three persons and one god.