Explore "The Truce of Christmas" by G.K. Chesterton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Passionate peace is in the sky -- / And in the snow in silver sealed / The beasts are perfect in the field, / And men seem men so suddenly -- / (But take ten swords and ten times ten / And blow the bugle in praising men; / For we are for all men under the sun, / And they are against us every one; / And misers haggle and madmen clutch, / And there is peril in praising much.
And we have the terrible tongues uncurled / That praise the world to the sons of the world.)