Explore "The Wild Knight and other Poems: Good News" by G.K. Chesterton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Between a meadow and a cloud that sped / In rain and twilight, in desire and fear. / I heard a secret -- hearken in your ear, / 'Behold the daisy has a ring of red.'
That hour, with half of blessing, half of ban, / A great voice went through heaven, and earth and hell, / Crying, 'We are tricked, my great ones, is it well? / Now is the secret stolen by a man.'
Then waxed I like the wind because of this, / And ran, like gospel and apocalypse, / From door to door, with new anarchic lips, / Crying the very blasphemy of bliss.
In the last wreck of Nature, dark and dread, / Shall in eclipse's hideous hieroglyph, / One wild form reel on the last rocking cliff, / And shout, 'The daisy has a ring of red. '