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WINE AND WATER (fragment)

Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale,
He ate his egg with a ladle in a egg-cup big as a pail,
And the soup he took was Elephant Soup and fish he took was Whale,

But they all were small to the cellar he took when he set out to sail,
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
"I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

Escritor, periodista y ensayista inglés. English writer, journalist and essayist.
Nació en 1874 en Londres en el seno de una familia de Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, 1874, into an
clase media anglicana. Anglican middle class family.
Estudió en el University College y Slade School of Art. He studied at the Slade School of Art and at
Trabajó como periodista, crítico y conferenciante, University College.
fundando su propio semanario. Chesterton worked as a newspaper reporter, critic and
Fue agnóstico y padeció una crisis espiritual, de la que le lecturer, founding his own weekly newspaper.
ayudó a salir su esposa, Frances Blogg. He was agnostic and he went through a spiritual crisis from
Se convirtió al catolicismo en 1922. which he recovered with the help of his wife, Frances Bogg,
Liberal en su juventud, pasó a un conservadurismo victoriano. and converted to Catholicism in 1922.
Murió en 1936 en Beaconsfield. A liberal in his youth, Chesterton became a
Su estilo pujante y vigoroso le llevó a la fama. Victorian conservative.
134 Son obras suyas: los primeros poemas, Greybeards at He died in 1936 in Beaconsfield. His flourishing and
vigorous style made him famous. Among his works: poems
play, las novelas: El Napoleón de Notting Hill, El hombre
que fue Jueves…, los relatos sobre el sacerdote-detective, Greybeards at Play; novels The Napoleon of Notting Hill,
El Padre Brown. The Man Who wasThursday…; stories about
the priest-detective Father Brown.