{"product_id":"2940013135505","title":"POEMS ~ GILBERT CHESTERTON","description":"Excerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhite founts falling in the Courts of the sun,\u003cbr\u003eAnd the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;\u003cbr\u003eThere is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared,\u003cbr\u003eIt stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard,\u003cbr\u003eIt curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips,\u003cbr\u003eFor the inmost sea of all the earth is shake with his ships.\u003cbr\u003eThey have dared the white republics up the cape of Italy,\u003cbr\u003eThey have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea,\u003cbr\u003eAnd the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,\u003cbr\u003eAnd called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross.\u003cbr\u003eThe cold queen of England is looking in the glass;\u003cbr\u003eThe shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass;\u003cbr\u003eFrom evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun,\u003cbr\u003eAnd the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDim drums throbbing, in the hills half heard,\u003cbr\u003eWhere only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred,\u003cbr\u003eWhere, risen from a doubtful seat and half attainted stall,\u003cbr\u003eThe last knight of Europe takes weapons from the wall,\u003cbr\u003eThe last and lingering troubadour to whom the bird has sung,\u003cbr\u003eThat once went singing southward when all the world was young.\u003cbr\u003eIn that enormous silence, tiny and unafraid,\u003cbr\u003eComes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStrong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,\u003cbr\u003eDon John of Austria is going to the war,\u003cbr\u003eStiff flags straining in the night-blasts cold\u003cbr\u003eIn the gloom black-purple, in the glint old-gold,\u003cbr\u003eTorchlight crimson on the copper kettle-drums,\u003cbr\u003eThen the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.\u003cbr\u003eDon John laughing in the brave beard curled.\u003cbr\u003eSpuming of his stirrups like the thrones of all the world,\u003cbr\u003eHolding his head up for a flag of all the free.\u003cbr\u003eLove-light of Spain--hurrah!\u003cbr\u003eDeath-light of Africa!\u003cbr\u003eDon John of Austria\u003cbr\u003eIs riding to the sea.","brand":"Unforgotten Clssics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069824975088,"sku":"2940013135505","price":1.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013135505_p0.jpg?v=1763577285","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013135505","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}