{"id":253,"date":"2024-03-25T10:17:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/?p=253"},"modified":"2024-03-25T10:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:17:23","slug":"a-palm-sunday-poem-by-g-k-chesterton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/2024\/03\/25\/a-palm-sunday-poem-by-g-k-chesterton\/","title":{"rendered":"A Palm Sunday poem by G.K. Chesterton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture is pleased to share “The Donkey,” a Palm Sunday poem by G.K. Chesterton:<\/p>\n

THE DONKEY<\/b><\/p>\n

by G. K. Chesterton<\/p>\n

When fishes flew and forest walked
\nAnd figs grew upon thorn,
\nSome moment when the moon was blood
\nThen surely I was born.<\/p>\n

With monstrous head and sickening cry
\nAnd ears like errant wings,
\nThe devil’s walking parody
\nOn all four-footed things.<\/p>\n

The tattered outlaw of the earth,
\nOf ancient crooked will;
\nStave, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,
\nI keep my secret still.<\/p>\n

Fools! For I also had my hour;
\nOne far fierce hour and sweet:
\nThere was a shout about my ears,
\nAnd palms before my feet.<\/p>\n

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  The G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture is pleased to share “The Donkey,” a Palm Sunday poem by G.K. Chesterton: THE DONKEY by G. K. Chesterton When fishes flew and forest 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… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g-k-c-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}