Thursday, August 12, 2010

The Convert by G.K. Chesterton

I read a poem tonight that I want to share with you. It is called The Convert, by Chesterton.

I think this can also be applied to my many "revert" friends as well! What a beautiful piece of literature..

After one moment when I bowed my head
And the whole world turned over and came upright,
And I came out where the old road shone white.
I walked the ways and heard what all men said,
Forests of tongues, like autumn leaves unshed,
Being not unlovable but strange and light;
Old riddles and new creeds, not in despite
But softly, as men smile about the dead


The sages have a hundred maps to give
That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree,
They rattle reason out through many a sieve
That stores the sand and lets the gold go free:
And all these things are less than dust to me
Because my name is Lazarus and I live.

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