{"id":1089,"date":"2010-09-08T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/09\/spring-a-few-words-for-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:57:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:57:48","slug":"spring-a-few-words-for-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/09\/spring-a-few-words-for-wednesday.html","title":{"rendered":"“Spring” (A Few Words for Wednesday)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/a>Like me, Webster is partial to Gerard Manley Hopkins, a 19th century poet who also was a Catholic convert and a Jesuit. (Depicted here bronze by Irish sculptor Rowan Gillsepie). \u00a0Webster has cited Hopkins\u2019s poems \u00a0here<\/a>, here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Poems are meant to be read out loud; this is especially true for Hopkins\u2019s. He used \u201csprung rhythm,\u201d which is intended to sound like natural speech. (Unlike most poets who use free verse, however, Hopkins made sure the number of feet per line of poetry was kept consistent within a single poem.)<\/p>\n

At a funeral I attended Saturday, the celebrant, Msgr. John Mraz, mentioned Hopkins. The deceased, Donald Patton Buckelew, like Hopkins, not only encountered Christ in the Mass, but also in his fellow human beings and in the natural world. What a gift.<\/p>\n

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NOTHING\u00a0is so beautiful as spring\u2014<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0Thrush\u2019s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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What is all this juice and all this joy?
\u00a0A strain of the earth\u2019s sweet being in the beginning
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In Eden garden.\u2014Have, get, before it cloy,<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0Most, O maid\u2019s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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