<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117901" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Little Litany</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When God turned back eternity and was young,<br>Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth<br>(As under the low arch the land is bright)<br>Peered through you, gate of heaven--and saw the earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or shutting out his shining skies awhile<br>Built you about him for a house of gold<br>To see in pictured walls his storied world<br>Return upon him as a tale is told.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or found his mirror there; the only glass<br>That would not break with that unbearable light<br>Till in a corner of the high dark house<br>God looked on God, as ghosts meet in the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Star of his morning; that unfallen star<br>In that strange starry overturn of space<br>When earth and sky changed places for an hour<br>And heaven looked upwards in a human face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or young on your strong knees and lifted up<br>Wisdom cried out, whose voice is in the street,<br>And more than twilight of twiformed cherubim<br>Made of his throne indeed a mercy-seat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or risen from play at your pale raiment's hem<br>God, grown adventurous from all time's repose,<br>Or your tall body climed the ivory tower<br>And kissed upon your mouth the mystic rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=G.K.+Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117901" data-title="A Little Litany de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="When God turned back eternity and was young,/Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth/(As under the low arch the land is bright)/Peered through you, gate of heaven--and saw the earth./Or shutting out his shining skies awhile/Built you about hi..."></div> </div> </div>

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