And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs –
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
—Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur
3 comments:
Loved Hopkins at school.
Haven't read it in years, but did remember the spelling
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Isn't it a beautiful poem? He uses words very sparingly, to great effect. Sorry to hear about the eye - the picture looks... uncomfortable.
David: Of course! *Slaps self upside of the head*. I will say a little bell in my head went *ding* when I saw the spelling first, but I trusted my friend whose website I copied it off.
Campbell: Yes, it is beautiful. I don't read enough poetry but am trying to rectify the error.
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