As Kingfishers Catch Fire

Gerard Manley Hopkins

1844 to 1889

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Track 1

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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled ______ rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked ______ tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to ______ out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one ______ and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each ______ 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 ______ in God's eye he is —
Chríst — for ______ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and ______ in eyes not his
To the Father through the ______ of men's faces.

Christ features fling lovely one over string thing what