Explore "The Crusader Returns from Captivity" by G.K. Chesterton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I have come forth alive from the land of purple and poison and glamour, / Where the charm is strong as the torture, being chosen to change the mind; / Torture of wordless dance and wineless feast without clamour, / Palace hidden in palace, garden with garden behind;
Women veiled in the sun, or bare as brass in the shadows, / And the endless eyeless patterns where each thing seems an eye.