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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Poem: "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

 Enough! the Resurrection,

A heart's-clarion! Away grief's gasping, | joyless days, dejection.
                            Across my foundering deck shone
A beacon, an eternal beam. | Flesh fade, and mortal trash
Fall to the residuary worm; | world's wildfire, leave but ash:
                            In a flash, at a trumpet crash,
I am all at once what Christ is, | since he was what I am, and
This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, | patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,
                            Is immortal diamond.

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