Difference between revisions of "The Babe Unborn"
| Line 10: | Line 10: | ||
<br>I know what I should do. | <br>I know what I should do. | ||
| − | + | In dark I lie: dreaming that there | |
<br>Are great eyes cold or kind, | <br>Are great eyes cold or kind, | ||
<br>And twisted streets and silent doors, | <br>And twisted streets and silent doors, | ||
| Line 26: | Line 26: | ||
They should not hear a word from me | They should not hear a word from me | ||
| − | Of selfishness or scorn, | + | <br>Of selfishness or scorn, |
| − | If only I could find the door, | + | <br>If only I could find the door, |
| − | If only I were born.<ref>https://cryingthoughts.wordpress.com/2017/08/05/by-the-babe-unborn-by-chesterton-explained/</ref></blockquote> | + | <br>If only I were born.<ref>https://cryingthoughts.wordpress.com/2017/08/05/by-the-babe-unborn-by-chesterton-explained/</ref></blockquote> |
== References == | == References == | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
[[category:pro-life works]] | [[category:pro-life works]] | ||
Revision as of 09:48, January 25, 2023
The Babe Unborn (1900, from The Wild Knight and Other Poems),[1] by G.K. Chesterton, is considered one of the finest pro-life poems of all-time:
If trees were tall and grasses short,
As in some crazy tale,
If here and there a sea were blue
Beyond the breaking pale,If a fixed fire hung in the air
To warm me one day through,
If deep green hair grew on great hills,
I know what I should do.In dark I lie: dreaming that there
Are great eyes cold or kind,
And twisted streets and silent doors,
And living men behind.Let storm-clouds come: better an hour,
And leave to weep and fight,
Than all the ages I have ruled
The empires of the night.I think that if they gave me leave
Within that world to stand,
I would be good through all the day
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.[2]