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Gerard
Manley Hopkins
(1844-1889)
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Famous for his sprung rhythm,
Hopkins is one of the best Christian poets. His poems challenge the mind
but bring a deep sense of wonder of the glory of God's creation.
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies
draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung
bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling
out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing
and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves--goes its self; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying What I do is me: for that I came.
I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is--
Christ. For Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
The
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