The Candle Indoors
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844 to 1889
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Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. You can also print out the jumbled poem to cut up and reassemble in the classroom. Either way, take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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With yellowy moisture mild night's blear-all black,
Some candle clear burns somewhere I come by.
I plod wondering, a-wanting, just for lack
Of answer the eagerer a-wanting Jessy or Jack
I muse at how its being puts blissful back
Or to-fro tender trambeams truckle at the eye.
Come you indoors, come home; your fading fire
Mend first and vital candle in close heart's vault:
By that window what task what fingers ply,
What hinders? Are you beam-blind, yet to a fault
You there are master, do your own desire;
In a neighbour deft-handed? Are you that liar
There God to aggrándise, God to glorify.—
And cast by conscience out, spendsavour salt?