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As Kingfishers Catch Fire
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
itself; 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.
"As Kingfishers Catch Fire" by Gerard Manley
Hopkins. Public Domain.
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Gerard clearly
saying that in God's eye, each of us Christ.
It's not that There
is no God; it's that all are.
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Reverend Father Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J*. was an
English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and a Jesuit priest, whose posthumous
fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. Wikipedia
- Society of Jesus (formal name for Jesuits, Roman Catholic Order of men)
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