{"id":38917,"date":"2018-12-03T13:57:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/?p=38917"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:55:07","slug":"lecture-104-serene-passion-and-fiery-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/store\/lecture-104-serene-passion-and-fiery-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 104: Serene Passion and Fiery Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Collected Works, Volume 10<\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><i>Collected Poetry Part 1<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first time I saw Aidan Mackey, he was standing at a lectern reading a Chesterton poem to about 25 people\u00a0sitting on folding chairs. It was June, 1990. Milwaukee. My first Chesterton Conference. I had arrived late, in the middle of his talk. He was pointing out the majesty of these lines:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding off the brink<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As if it would wash the stars away . . .<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And how they contrasted with what came next:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . as suds go down a sink.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everyone laughed. Little did I know as he finished the stanza, that he was acquainting me with one of the essential poems from the Chesterton corpus:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink,<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And Noah he cocked his eye and said, \u201cIt looks like rain, I think,<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a\u00a0Mendip\u00a0mine,<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t care where the water goes if it doesn&#8217;t get into the wine.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>George Marlin, the General Editor of the\u00a0<i>Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton<\/i>\u00a0for Ignatius Press, wisely chose Aidan Mackey to edit Volume 10, Chesterton&#8217;s collected poetry. But George&#8217;s mistake was setting aside only one volume for the poetry. He had no idea, and neither did anyone else, how many poems Chesterton had written. Aidan Mackey started collecting the uncollected Chesterton poetry and soon realized there was enough for another volume. As he continued his work, it became apparent that there was enough for still another.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>Aidan admitted to being somewhat overwhelmed by the project. (And he handed off the editing duties for the second and third volumes to Denis Conlon.) In organizing this first volume, Aidan took a thematic approach rather than a chronological one. But even the themes overlap, as love, faith, heroism and humor often do. In some ways, it is more mysterious what Aidan left out than what he left in. But those\u00a0decisions no doubt reflected his own frustration with having more material than he knew what do to with. 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His verse washes over us, sometimes like a singing brook, sometimes like a dancing rain, and sometimes like a mighty ocean. Chesterton is passionate about everything: wonder at God&#8217;s creation, fidelity to friends, fighting the good fight in battlefields both physical and spiritual. The blood and the wine are always red.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We see his passion most pleasantly in his love poems. Gilbert loves Frances. He adores this woman; he feels unworthy of her. He wants to express his love in words,\u00a0which, even if it be the thing he does best, is a task for which he feels his talents are inadequate. 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He writes of her\u00a0from the first to the last. She is called many things, \u201cThe Mirror of Justice,\u201d \u201cThe Queen of the Eagles,\u201d \u201cOur Lady of Victory,\u201d \u201cOur Lady of Last Assurance.\u201d She, of \u201cthe broken heart and the unbroken sword,\u201d holds G.K. 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