Explore "The Wild Knight and other Poems: a Man and his Image" by G.K. Chesterton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
All day the nations climb and crawl and pray / In one long pilgrimage to one white shrine, / Where sleeps a saint whose pardon, like his peace, / Is wide as death, as common, as divine.
His statue in an aureole fills the shrine, / The reckless nightingale, the roaming fawn, / Share the broad blessing of his lifted hands, / Under the canopy, above the lawn.