Post by rubl on Feb 3, 2019 20:35:57 GMT 7
I stumbled over this quote
"There is always a thing forgotten,
When all the world goes well"
Looked like a rule out of the engineer's Bible, but seems it's from "The Ballad of the White Horse" by G. K. Chesterton. It's about the life of King Alfred the Great, full text at wikisource and gutenberg
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The Ballad of the White Horse (1911) by G. K. Chesterton is an account in verse of the career of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, and often considered to have been the first "King of England." Segments of the epic have been selected to convey a general idea of the account it gives of the historical and legendary events. Chesterton interweaves historical information with references to a great deal of mythical and religious lore. The title refers to the White Horse of Uffington a huge stylized image of a white horse that has existed in the hills of southern England since ancient times, maintained by a periodic scouring of the ground to expose the underlying chalk stone beneath."
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_the_White_Horse
"There is always a thing forgotten,
When all the world goes well"
Looked like a rule out of the engineer's Bible, but seems it's from "The Ballad of the White Horse" by G. K. Chesterton. It's about the life of King Alfred the Great, full text at wikisource and gutenberg
"
The Ballad of the White Horse (1911) by G. K. Chesterton is an account in verse of the career of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, and often considered to have been the first "King of England." Segments of the epic have been selected to convey a general idea of the account it gives of the historical and legendary events. Chesterton interweaves historical information with references to a great deal of mythical and religious lore. The title refers to the White Horse of Uffington a huge stylized image of a white horse that has existed in the hills of southern England since ancient times, maintained by a periodic scouring of the ground to expose the underlying chalk stone beneath."
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_the_White_Horse
