stardust

"God´s Grandeur." (Sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins.)

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod??
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared, with toil;
And wears man´s smudge and shares man´s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And, for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights of the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs-
Because the Holy Spirit over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah!! bright wings.

Sonnet´s Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins. (Written in the 19th Century).