Explore "The Wild Knight and other Poems: Art Colours" by G.K. Chesterton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
On must we go: we search dead leaves, / We chase the sunset's saddest flames, / The nameless hues that o'er and o'er / In lawless wedding lost their names.
God of the daybreak! Better be / Black savages; and grin to gird / Our limbs in gaudy rags of red, / The laughing-stock of brute and bird;
And feel again the fierce old feast, / Blue for seven heavens that had sufficed, / A gold like shining hoards, a red / Like roses from the blood of Christ.