Gerard Manley Hopkins - That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire

Gerard Manley Hopkins - That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire

Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows ' flaunt forth, then chevy on an air- br built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs ' they throng; they glitter in marches. br Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, ' wherever an elm arches, br Shivelights and shadowtackle in long ' lashes lace, lance, and pair. br Delightfully the bright wind boisterous ' ropes, wrestles, beats earth bare br Of yestertempest’s creases; in pool and rut peel parches br Squandering ooze to squeezed ' dough, crust, dust; stanches, starches br Squadroned masks and manmarks ' treadmire toil there br Footfretted in it. Million-fuelèd, ' nature’s bonfire burns on. br But quench her bonniest, dearest ' to her, her clearest-selvèd spark br Man, how fast his firedint, ' his mark on mind, is gone! br Both are in an unfathomable, all is in an enormous dark br Drowned. O pity and indig ' nation! Manshape, that shone br Sheer off, disseveral, a star, ' death blots black out; nor mark br Is any of him at all so stark br But vastness blurs and time ' beats level. Enough! the Resurrection, br A heart’s-clarion! Away grief’s gasping, ' joyless days, dejection. br Across my foundering deck shone br A beacon, an eternal beam. ' Flesh fade, and mortal trash br Fall to the residuary worm; ' world’s wildfire, leave but ash: br In a flash, at a trumpet crash, br I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and br This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, br Is immortal diamond.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-07

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