Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen

by G. K. Chesterton

In picture books like these.

Hoary and bent I dance one hour:

What though I die at morn?

There is a shout among the stars,

"To-night a child is born."

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CONTENTS.

THE ONENESS OF THE PHILOSOPHER WITH NATURE [1]

OF THE DANGERS ATTENDING ALTRUISM ON THE HIGH SEAS [45]