Confessions of a Caricaturist by Oliver Herford

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When Plain Folk, such as you or I, / See the Sun sinking in the sky, / We think it is the Setting Sun, / But Mr. Gilbert Chesterton / Is not so easily misled. / He calmly stands upon his head, / And upside down obtains a new / And Chestertonian point of view, / Observing thus, how from his toes / The sun creeps nearer to his nose, / He cries with wonder and delight, / "How Grand the SUNRISE is to-night!"

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