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I find this poem offers deep spiritual comfort for transforming the usually fearsome image of a skeleton into a laughing figure filled with mirth. Chesterton sees god as "the good king" who plays a jest with man by keeping death's reality a secret. Humor and god are not usual used in the same poem which only adds to this poem's impact.
john v. gribbin from United States