| Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918. |
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| 8. The Starlight Night |
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| LOOK at the stars! look, look up at the skies! | |
| O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! | |
| The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! | |
| Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves’-eyes! | |
| The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies! | 5 |
| Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare! | |
| Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare!— | |
| Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize. | |
| Buy then! bid then!—What?—Prayer, patience, aims, vows. | |
| Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs! | 10 |
| Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows! | |
| These are indeed the barn; withindoors house | |
| The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse | |
| Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows. | |
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