Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

As kingfishers catch fire

 
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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme;

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;

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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 do is me: for that I came.

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Í say móre: the just man justices;

Kéeps gráce: 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,

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Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his

To the Father through the features of men's faces.