http://www.wordnik.com/lists/the-poetry-of-gerard-manley-hopkins-lugubrious-jesuit.xml That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection <br /> <br />Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows flaunt forth, then chevy on an air-built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs they throng; they glitter in marches. <br />Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, wherever an elm arches, <br />Shivelights and shadowtackle in long lashes lace, lance, and pair. <br />Delightfully the bright wind boisterous ropes, wrestles, beats earth bare <br />Of yestertempest's creases; in pool and rut peel parches <br />Squandering ooze to squeezed dough, crust, dust; stanches, starches <br />Squadroned masks and manmarks treadmire toil there <br />Footfretted in it. Million-fuelèd, nature's bonfire burns on. <br />But quench her bonniest, dearest to her, her clearest-selvèd spark <br />Man, how fast his firedint, his mark on mind, is gone! <br />Both are in an unfathomable, all is in an enormous dark <br />Drowned. O pity and indig nation! Manshape, that shone <br />Sheer off, disseveral, a star, death blots black out; nor mark <br />Is any of him at all so stark <br />But vastness blurs and time beats level. Enough! the Resurrection, <br />A heart's-clarion! Away grief's gasping, joyless days, dejection. <br />Across my foundering deck shone <br />A beacon, an eternal beam. Flesh fade, and mortal trash <br />Fall to the residuary worm; world's wildfire, leave but ash: <br />In a flash, at a trumpet crash, <br />I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am, and <br />This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, <br />Is immortal diamond. <br /> <br /> <br /> Inversnaid <br /> <br />This darksome burn, horseback brown, <br />His rollrock highroad roaring down, <br />In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam <br />Flutes and low to the lake falls home. <br />A windpuff-bonnet of fáwn-fróth <br />Turns and twindles over the broth <br />Of a pool so pitchblack, féll-frówning, <br />It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning. <br /> <br />Degged with dew, dappled with dew <br />Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, <br />Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, <br />And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn. <br /> <br />What would the world be, once bereft <br />Of wet and of wildness? 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