Explore "The Song against Grocers" by G.K. Chesterton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
God made the wicked Grocer / For a mystery and a sign, / That men might shun the awful shops / And go to inns to dine; / Where the bacon's on the rafter / And the wine is in the wood, / And God that made good laughter / Has seen that they are good.
The evil-hearted Grocer / Would call his mother "Ma'am," / And bow at her and bob at her, / Her aged soul to damn, / And rub his horrid hands and ask / What article was next, / Though = mortis in articulo = / Should be her proper text.