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As Kingfishers Catch Fire – Gerad Manley Hopkins

October 14, 2015 by Chris Gribble

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 Whát I dó is me: for that I came.

I say móre: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is —
Chríst — 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.

Where I “found” myself in this poem.

What I do is me,
all his goings graces;
God’s eye,
Christ – in ten thousand places,
Lovely eyes,
Father – through men’s faces.

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