Read "The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Pessimist" by G.K. Chesterton online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go -- / I know your hoary question, the riddle that all men know. / You have weighed the stars in a balance, and grasped the skies in a span: / Take, if you must have answer, the word of a common man.
Deep in my life lies buried one love unhealed, unshriven, / One hunger still shall haunt me -- yea, in the streets of heaven; / This is the burden, babbler, this is the curse shall cling, / This is the thing I bring you; this is the pleasant thing.