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    Wine, Water, and Song
    Wine, Water, and Song
    Wine, Water, and Song
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    Wine, Water, and Song

    By G.K Chesterton

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    A few really fun poems here, especially the ones that glorify drinking and attack the tea -totalers of the day. (Goodreads)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOtbebookpublishing
    Release dateJan 11, 2019
    ISBN9783962728632
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    G.K Chesterton

    G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was a prolific English journalist and author best known for his mystery series featuring the priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Baptized into the Church of England, Chesterton underwent a crisis of faith as a young man and became fascinated with the occult. He eventually converted to Roman Catholicism and published some of Christianity’s most influential apologetics, including Heretics and Orthodoxy. 

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      Wine, Water, and Song - G.K Chesterton

      WINE, WATER AND SONG

      BY

      G. K. CHESTERTON

      The Englishman

      St. George he was for England,

      And before he killed the dragon

      He drank a pint of English ale

      Out of an English flagon.

      For though he fast right readily

      In hair-shirt or in mail,

      It isn't safe to give him cakes

      Unless you give him ale.

      St. George he was for England,

      And right gallantly set free

      The lady left for dragon's meat

      And tied up to a tree;

      But since he stood for England

      And knew what England means,

      Unless you give him bacon

      You mustn't give him beans.

      St. George he is for England,

      And shall wear the shield he wore

      When we go out in armour

      With the battle-cross before.

      But though he is jolly company

      And very pleased to dine,

      It isn't safe to give him nuts

      Unless you give him wine.

      Wine and Water

      Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest

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