{"product_id":"the-ballad-of-the-white-horse-von-g-k-chesterton-2","title":"The ballad of the white horse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\" DEDICATION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf great limbs gone to chaos,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA great face turned to night--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy bend above a shapeless shroud\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeeking in such archaic cloud\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSight of strong lords and light?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere seven sunken Englands\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLie buried one by one,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy should one idle spade, I wonder,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShake up the dust of thanes like thunder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo smoke and choke the sun?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn cloud of clay so cast to heaven\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat shape shall man discern?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese lords may light the mystery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf mastery or victory,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd these ride high in history,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut these shall not return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGored on the Norman gonfalon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Golden Dragon died:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe shall not wake with ballad strings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe good time of the smaller things,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe shall not see the holy kings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRide down by Severn side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStiff, strange, and quaintly coloured\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the broidery of Bayeux\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe England of that dawn remains,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd this of Alfred and the Danes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeems like the tales a whole tribe feigns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToo English to be true.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041947102\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA Poetic Exploration of King Alfred's Legendary Struggles\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041947102","offer_id":46360021729605,"sku":"9791041947102","price":12.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/9c1486c2-62bb-493c-b49f-49813d3970f4.jpg?v=1768457138","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-ballad-of-the-white-horse-von-g-k-chesterton-2","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}