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In Honour Of St Alphonsus Rodriguez

Laybrother of the Society of

Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say;

And those strokes once that gashed flesh or galled

Should tongue that time now, trumpet now that field,

And, on the fighter, forge his glorious day.

On Christ they do and on the martyr may;

But be the war within, the brand we

Unseen, the heroic breast not outward-steeled,

Earth hears no hurtle then from fiercest fray.  Yet God (that hews mountain and continent,

Earth, all, out; who, with trickling increment,

Veins violets and tall trees makes more and more)Could crowd career with conquest while there

Those years and years by of world without

That in Majorca Alfonso watched the door.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the lea…

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