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. | |
Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, ' wherever an elm arches, | |
Shivelights and shadowtackle in long ' lashes lace, lance, and pair. | |
Delightfully the bright wind boisterous ' ropes, wrestles, beats earth bare | 5 |
Of yestertempest’s creases; in pool and rut peel parches | |
Squandering ooze to squeezed ' dough, crust, dust; stanches, starches | |
Squadroned masks and manmarks ' treadmire toil there | |
Footfretted in it. Million-fuelèd, ' nature’s bonfire burns on. | |
But quench her bonniest, dearest ' to her, her clearest-selvèd spark | 10 |
Man, how fast his firedint, ' his mark on mind, is gone! | |
Both are in an unfathomable, all is in an enormous dark | |
Drowned. O pity and indig ' nation! Manshape, that shone | |
Sheer off, disseveral, a star, ' death blots black out; nor mark | |
Is any of him at all so stark | 15 |
But vastness blurs and time ' beats level. 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: | 20 |
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. G. M. Hopkins, 26.VII.1888 |
3.23.2008
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
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No pasé de la segunda línea: mi inglés me avergûenza.
Pasa que el de Hopkins es un meta-inglés. Yo tengo libros con anotaciones y cosas así.
Pero de todos modos lee las últimas líneas.
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