Explore "The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Fish" by G.K. Chesterton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Dark the sea was: but I saw him, / One great head with goggle eyes, / Like a diabolic cherub / Flying in those fallen skies.
I have heard the hoarse deniers, / I have known the wordy wars; / I have seen a man, by shouting, / Seek to orphan all the stars.
I have seen a fool half-fashioned / Borrow from the heavens a tongue, / So to curse them more at leisure -- / -- And I trod him not as dung.
For I saw that finny goblin / Hidden in the abyss untrod; / And I knew there can be laughter / On the secret face of God.
Blow the trumpets, crown the sages, / Bring the age by reason fed! / (He that sitteth in the heavens, / 'He shall laugh' -- the prophet said.)