And Yet They Choose to Fight

March 31, 2014May 27, 2014 Rabbit Trails

Welcome to my third post sharing thoughts about G.K. Cheston’s epic poem Ballad of the White Horse. “The King went gathering Wessex men, As wheat out of the husk; Eldred, the Franklin by the sea, And Mark, the man from … Continue reading And Yet They Choose to Fight

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A Horse, a War and a Vision

March 9, 2014December 28, 2020 Rabbit Trails

This is my second post about G.K. Cheston’s epic poem Ballad of the White Horse. G.K. Chesterton organized his epic by chapters, or books as they are called. After the lovely Dedication to his wife Frances, he plunges us into … Continue reading A Horse, a War and a Vision

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Ballad of the White Horse

March 2, 2014April 16, 2014 Rabbit Trails

As I mentioned in an earlier post, The Daughter and I are reading Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s epic poem, The Ballad of the White Horse as part of our Year 7 studies. And as I mentioned in another earlier post, I … Continue reading Ballad of the White Horse