The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844 to 1889
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To Christ our Lord
I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in ______ riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the ______ of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, ______ forth on swing,
As a skate's heel sweeps ______ on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed ______ big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
______ beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, ______
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes ______ down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.