Lord Dunsany, Fantasist and Chess Champ

"One art they say is of no use;

The mellow evenings spent at chess,

The thrill, the triumph, and the truce

To every care, are valueless.

"And yet, if all whose hopes were set

On harming man played chess instead,

We should have cities standing yet

Which now are dust upon the dead."

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