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Easter Sunday: Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty
Sunday, March 23, 2008 • 1:35 pm
All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty


Comments:

Let him Easter in us,
Be a day-spring to the dimness of us,
Be a crimson-cresseted East.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Wreck of the Deutschland

[1] Posted by st. anonymous on 03-23-2008 at 06:29 PM

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