The Candle Indoors
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844 to 1889
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Some candle clear burns somewhere I come by.
I at how its being puts blissful back
With yellowy mild night's blear-all black,
Or to-fro tender trambeams truckle the eye.
By that window what task what fingers ply,
I plod wondering, a-wanting, just for lack
Of answer eagerer a-wanting Jessy or Jack
There God to aggrándise, to glorify.—
Come you indoors, come home; your fire
Mend first and vital candle in close heart's vault:
You there are master, do your own desire;
What hinders? Are you beam-blind, yet to a fault
In a deft-handed? Are you that liar
And cast by conscience out, spendsavour salt?