30 November 2008

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Trees by their yield
Are known; but I --
My sap is sealed,
My root is dry.
If life within
I none can shew
(Except for sin),
Nor fruit above, --
It must be so --
I do not love.


Will no one show
I argued ill?
Because, although
Self-sentenced, still
I keep my trust.
If He would prove
And search me through
Would He not find and
(What yet there must
Be hid behind

2 comments:

  1. BAH!

    I love Hopkins.

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  2. Yes, he really is quite amazing. He has a way of expressing emotion that I WISH I had the ability to do.

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