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1874–1936

ECCLESIASTES

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

There is one sin: to call a green leaf grey, 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.

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