La Ballade du Cheval blanc (extrait)

Attention, il ne s'agit pas d'un véritable film mais d'un montage. La voix, en revanche, est bien celle de Chesterton, récitant, The Woman in the Forest, une partie de son célèbre poème : La Ballade du Cheval blanc. Le son pourrait venir de la BBC pour la radio canadienne et dater de 1935.

THE WOMAN IN THE FOREST

Thick thunder of the snorting swine,
Enormous in the gloam,
Rending among all roots that cling,
And the wild horses whinnying,
Were the night's noises when the King,
Shouldering his harp, went home.

With eyes of owl and feet of fox,
Full of all thoughts he went;
He marked the tilt of the pagan camp,
The paling of pine, the sentries' tramp,
And the one great stolen altar-lamp
Over Guthrum in his tent.