The Candle Indoors
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844 to 1889
Track 1
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By that window what task what fingers ply,
Or to-fro tender trambeams truckle at the eye.
With yellowy moisture mild night's blear-all black,
Come you indoors, come home; your fading fire
Mend first and vital candle in close heart's vault:
There God to aggrándise, God to glorify.—
I muse at how its being puts blissful back
Some candle clear burns somewhere I come by.
You there are master, do your own desire;
I plod wondering, a-wanting, just for lack
And cast by conscience out, spendsavour salt?
In a neighbour deft-handed? Are you that liar
Of answer the eagerer a-wanting Jessy or Jack
What hinders? Are you beam-blind, yet to a fault
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