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I can't find a link to the exact quote Cannoli Send a noteboard - 27/01/2010 12:14:19 PM
'Cos I don't find that phrase so very close to my own when I google his work. At this point what you said still sounds a lot closer to what I've said many times than anything I can find by Chesterton. I'm not saying it's not there, just that I need help finding it if it is, and since you have the quote ready to hand....


It is from the "Ballad of the White Horse" and in Book 3 "The Harp of Alfred." Any links to the poem just give the whole thing, but it's down near the end. This is the whole stanza, and the two surrounding:

He heaved the head of the harp on high
And swept the framework barred,
And his stroke had all the rattle and spark
Of horses flying hard.

"When God put man in a garden
He girt him with a sword,
And sent him forth a free knight
That might betray his lord;

"He brake Him and betrayed Him,
And fast and far he fell,
Till you and I may stretch our necks
And burn our beards in hell.
Cannoli
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
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