Gerard Manley Hopkins - The Starlight Night

Gerard Manley Hopkins - The Starlight Night

Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies! br O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! br The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! br Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes! br The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies! br Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare! br Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare! -- br Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize. br br Buy then! bid then! -- What? -- Prayer, patience, alms, vows. br Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs! br Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows! br These are indeed the barn; withindoors house br The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse br Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-07

Duration: 01:12

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