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Gilbert Keith Chesterton - SonnetGilbert Keith Chesterton - Sonnet
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High on the wall that holds Jerusalem     I saw one stand under the stars like stone.     And when I perish it shall not be known     Whether he lived, some strolling son of Shem,     Or was some great ghost wearing the diadem     Of Solomon or Saladin on a throne:     I only know, the features being unshown,     I did not dare draw near and look on them.     Did ye not guess ... the diadem might be     Plaited in stranger style by hands of hate ...     But when I looked, the wall was desolate     And the grey starlight powdered tower and tree:     And vast and vague beyond the Golden Gate     Heaved Moab of the mountains like a sea.
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