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A Ballad Of Suicide

by G.K. Chesterton

The gallows in my garden, people say,

Is new and neat and adequately tall;
I tie the noose on in a knowing way

As one that knots his necktie for a ball;
But just as all the neighbours-on the wall-
Are drawing a long breath to shout "Hurray!"

The strangest whim has seized me.... After all
I think I will not hang myself to-day.
To-morrow is the time I get my pay-

My uncle's sword is hanging in the hall-
I see a little cloud all pink and grey-

Perhaps the rector's mother will not call- I fancy that I heard from Mr. Gall
That mushrooms could be cooked another way-

I never read the works of Juvenal-
I think I will not hang myself to-day.
The world will have another washing-day;

The decadents decay; the pedants pall;
And H.G. Wells has found that children play,

And Bernard Shaw discovered that they squall,
Rationalists are growing rational-
And through thick woods one finds a stream astray

So secret that the very sky seems small-
I think I will not hang myself to-day.

ENVOI
Prince, I can hear the trumpet of Germinal,
The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way;

Even to-day your royal head may fall,
I think I will not hang myself to-day


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  Poems by G.K. Chesterton
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  2. Elegy In A Country Churchyard
  3. The Aristocrat
  4. The Donkey
  5. The Great Minimum
  6. The Last Hero
  7. The Rolling English Road
  8. The Song Of The Strange Ascetic
  9. The Strange Music
  10. The Sword Of Surprise
  11. The World State
 
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