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Gilbert Keith Chesterton - The FishGilbert Keith Chesterton - The Fish
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Dark the sea was: but I saw him,   One great head with goggle eyes, Like a diabolic cherub   Flying in those fallen skies. I have heard the hoarse deniers,   I have known the wordy wars; I have seen a man, by shouting,   Seek to orphan all the stars. I have seen a fool half-fashioned   Borrow from the heavens a tongue, So to curse them more at leisure--   --And I trod him not as dung. For I saw that finny goblin   Hidden in the abyss untrod; And I knew there can be laughter   On the secret face of God. Blow the trumpets, crown the sages,   Bring the age by reason fed! (He that sitteth in the heavens,   `He shall laugh`--the prophet said.)
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