Poem: “The Happy Man” G.K. Chesterton [Midweek Edition]
THE HAPPY MAN
G.K. Chesterton
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.
