The Starlight Night
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! 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, alms, vows. Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs!
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.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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