Explore "The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Donkey" by G.K. Chesterton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
When fishes flew and forests walked / And figs grew upon thorn, / Some moment when the moon was blood / Then surely I was born;
With monstrous head and sickening cry / And ears like errant wings, / The devil's walking parody / On all four-footed things.
The tattered outlaw of the earth, / Of ancient crooked will; / Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb, / I keep my secret still.
Fools! For I also had my hour; / One far fierce hour and sweet: / There was a shout about my ears, / And palms before my feet.