Page:Chesterton - The Ballad of St. Barbara and other verses, 1922.djvu/10

 The stages of one towering drama Always ahead and out of sight Do you remember Aceldama And the jackal barking in the night?

Life is not void or stuff for scorners: We have laughed loud and kept our love, We have heard singers in tavern corners And not forgotten the birds above: We have known smiters and sons of thunder And not unworthily walked with them, We have grown wiser and lost not wonder; And we have seen Jerusalem.