Ecclesiastes

By Gilbert Keith Chesterton

There is one sin: to call a green leaf gray,

     Whereat the sun in heaven shuddereth.

There is one blasphemy: for death to pray,

      For God alone knoweth the praise of death.

There is one creed: ’’neath no world-terror’s wing

      Apples forget to grow on apple-trees.

There is one thing is needful everything

      The rest is vanity of vanities.