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Morning Midday and Evening Sacrifice

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

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The dappled die-away     Cheek and wimpled lip,     The gold-wisp, the airy-grey     Eye, all in fellowship -     This, all this beauty blooming,     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     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     And mastery in the mind,     In silk-ash kept from cooling,     And ripest under rind -     What life half lifts the latch of,     What hell stalks towards the snatch of,     Your offering, with despatch, of!

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About Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) was an English Jesuit poet who invented "sprung rhythm," a new metrical system. His poems—including "The Windhover," "Pied Beauty," and "God's Grandeur"—were published posthumously and are now celebrated for their ecstatic language and innovative prosody.

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