Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Gerard Manley Hopkins (18441889)Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice
THE DAPPLED die-away | |
Cheek and wimpled lip, | |
The gold-wisp, the airy-gray | |
Eye, all in fellowship— | |
This, all this, beauty blooming, | 5 |
This, all this, freshness fuming, | |
Give God while worth consuming. | |
Both thought and thew now bolder | |
And told by Nature tower; | |
Head, heart, hand, heel, and shoulder | 10 |
That beat and breathe in power— | |
This pride of prime’s enjoyment | |
Take as for tool, not toy meant, | |
And hold at Christ’s employment. | |
The vault and scope and schooling, | 15 |
And mastery in the mind, | |
In silk ash, kept from cooling, | |
And ripest under rind— | |
What Death half lifts the latch of, | |
What Hell stalks towards the snatch of, | 20 |
Your offering, with despatch, of! | |