Poem by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Ecclesiastes

There is one sin: to call a green leaf gray,
   Whereat the sun in heaven shuddereth.
There is one blasphemy: for death to pray,
   For God alone knoweth the praise of death.

There is one creed: ’’neath no world-terror’s wing
   Apples forget to grow on apple-trees.
There is one thing is needful everything
   The rest is vanity of vanities. 

1. The Song of Right and Wrong
2. Bay Combe
3. The Logical Vegetarian
4. Americanisation
5. The House of Christmas

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