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'''The Babe Unborn''' (1900, from ''The Wild Knight and Other Poems''),<ref>https://www.infobooks.org/authors/classic/g-k-chesterton-books/</ref> by [[G.K. Chesterton]], is considered one of the finest [[pro-life]] poems of all-time:
<blockquote>If trees were tall and grasses short,
<br>As in some crazy tale,
<br>If here and there a sea were blue
<br>Beyond the breaking pale,
If a fixed fire hung in the air
<br>To warm me one day through,
<br>If deep green hair grew on great hills,
<br>I know what I should do.
<br>In dark I lie: dreaming that there
<br>Are great eyes cold or kind,
<br>And twisted streets and silent doors,
<br>And living men behind.
Let storm-clouds come: better an hour,
<br>And leave to weep and fight,
<br>Than all the ages I have ruled
<br>The empires of the night.
I think that if they gave me leave
<br>Within that world to stand,
<br>I would be good through all the day
<br>I spent in fairyland.
They should not hear a word from me
Of selfishness or scorn,
If only I could find the door,
If only I were born.</blockquote>
== References ==
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