title: 40 Days with the Celtic Saints: Devotional readings for a time of preparation
author: David Cole
description: David is an international Spiritual Teacher and Retreat Leader; he is an award winning author; 'Explorer Guide' for the Community of Aidan and Hilda, and is the founder of 'Waymark Ministries' which creates opportunities for people to engage with the Christian message, offering the message of Christ for spiritual seekers. He has been a full-time church minister and teaching pastor in different churches; is qualified in 'spiritual care' (holistic care and pastoral counselling); and has a Masters' degree in 'Christian Spirituality' from Sarum College, Salisbury. David lives in the New Forest with his wife and two children.
zlib_text: # The Ballad of St. Barbara
  
  
  AND OTHER VERSES
  
  
  BY
  
  
  GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON
  
  
  LONDON
  
  
  CECIL PALMER
  
  
  OAKLEY HOUSE BLOOMSBURY STREET W.C.1.
  
  
  FIRST  
  EDITION  
  1922  
  COPYRIGHT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##
  
  
  
  
  
  TO F. C. IN MEMORIAM PALESTINE, ’19
  
  
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  Do you remember one immortal  
  
  
  
  
  
  Lost moment out of time and space,  
  
  
  
  
  
  What time we thought, who passed the portal  
  
  
  
  
  
  Of that divine disastrous place  
  
  
  
  
  
  Where Life was slain and Truth was slandered  
  
  
  
  
  
  On that one holier hill than Rome,  
  
  
  
  
  
  How far abroad our bodies wandered  
  
  
  
  
  
  That evening when our souls came home?  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The mystic city many-gated,  
  
  
  
  
  
  With monstrous columns, was your own:  
  
  
  
  
  
  Herodian stones fell down and waited  
  
  
  
  
  
  Two thousand years to be your throne.  
  
  
  
  
  
  In the grey rocks the burning blossom  
  
  
  
  
  
  Glowed terrible as the sacred blood:  
  
  
  
  
  
  It was no stranger to your bosom  
  
  
  
  
  
  Than bluebells of an English wood.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Do you remember a road that follows  
  
  
  
  
  
  The way 