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<name>Gerard Manley <index>Hopkins</index></name>

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<title>As kingfishers catch fire</title>

<source><uri>bartleby.com</uri> has a version.</source>

<remark>An astonishing demonstration by one of the greatest masters. As surprising in its enthusiasm, as it is in the audacity of its rhymes. It has four end-rhymes including the incomparable <quote>justices</quote> / <quote>he is</quote> / <quote>not his</quote> triplet; internal rhymes and half-rhymes also abound.</remark>

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<line>As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw <rhyme on="a">fláme</rhyme>;</line>

<line>As tumbled over rim in roundy <rhyme on="b">wells</rhyme></line>

<line>Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung <rhyme on="b">bell's</rhyme></line>

<line>Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its <rhyme on="a">name</rhyme>;</line>

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<line>Each mortal thing does one thing and the <rhyme on="a">same</rhyme>:</line>

<line>Deals out that being indoors each one <rhyme on="b">dwells</rhyme>;</line>

<line>Selves — goes itself; <stress>myself</stress> it speaks and <rhyme on="b">spells</rhyme>,</line>

<line>Crying <stress>Whát I do is me: for that I <rhyme on="a">came</rhyme></stress>.</line>

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<line>Í say móre: the just man <rhyme on="c">justices</rhyme>; </line>

<line>Kéeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings <rhyme on="d">graces</rhyme>;</line>

<line>Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand <rhyme on="d">places</rhyme>,</line>

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<line>Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes <rhyme on="c">not his</rhyme> </line>

<line>To the Father through the features of men's <rhyme on="d">faces</rhyme>.</line>

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