The Higher Unity
The Rev.
Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior of the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may have been devoured by the natives, as there has been a considerable revival of religious customs among the Polynesians.—A real paragraph from a real Paper; only the names altered.
It was Isaiah
Who sailed to the world's end,
And spread religion in a
That he did not intend.
He gave, if not the gospel-feast,
At least a ritual meal;
And in a highly painful
He was devoured with zeal.
And who are we (as Henson says)That we should close the door?
And should not
All jump at shedding Gore?
And many a man will melt in man,
Becoming one, not two,
When smacks across the startled
The Kiss of Kikuyu.
When Man is the Turk, and the Atheist,
Essene,
Erastian,
Whig,
And the Thug and the Druse and the
And the crew of the Captain's gig.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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To Belloc
For every tiny town or God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish And see them tangled in a tree;
Variations of an Air
Old King Was a merry old And a merry old soul was He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl and he called for his fiddlers threeafter Lord
The New Omar
A Book of verses underneath the bough, Provided that the verses do not scan, A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and Thou, Short-haired, all angles, looking like a man But let the wine be unfermented, Pale, Of chemicals compounded,
Wine and Water
Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale, He ate his egg with a ladle in a egg-cup big as a pail, And the soup he took was Elephant Soup and fish he took was Whale, But they all were small to the cellar he took...
