Explore "The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Ancient of Days" by G.K. Chesterton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
A child sits in a sunny place, / Too happy for a smile, / And plays through one long holiday / With balls to roll and pile; / A painted wind-mill by his side / Runs like a merry tune, / But the sails are the four great winds of heaven, / And the balls are the sun and moon.
A staring doll's-house shows to him / Green floors and starry rafter, / And many-coloured graven dolls / Live for his lonely laughter. / The dolls have crowns and aureoles, / Helmets and horns and wings. / For they are the saints and seraphim, / The prophets and the kings.