WHEN fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn,
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born.
With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil's walking parody
On all four-footed things.
The tattered outlaw of the earth,
Of ancient crooked will,
Starve, scourge, deride me I am dumb,
I keep my secret still.
Fools, for I also had my hour,
One far fierce hour and sweet,
There was a shout about my ears
And palms before my feet.
~G.K. Chesterton
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Artwork: "Scenes from the Life of Christ: 10.
Entry into Jerusalem"
by Giotto di Bonde. A.D. 1304-06;
Cappella Scrovegni, Padua.
