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1874–1936

THE HAPPY MAN

Gilbert Keith 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.

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