As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844 to 1889
Track 1
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Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
I say móre: the just man justices;
Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
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