Explore "The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Desecraters" by G.K. Chesterton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Witness all: that unrepenting, / Feathers flying, music high, / I go down to death unshaken / By your mean philosophy.
For your wages, take my body, / That at least to you I leave; / Set the sulky plumes upon it, / Bid the grinning mummers grieve.
Stand in silence: steep your raiment / In the night that hath no star; / Don the mortal dress of devils, / Blacker than their spirits are.
Since ye may not, of your mercy, / Ere I lie on such a hearse, / Hurl me to the living jackals / God hath built for sepulchres.