Carrion Comfort NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; | |
Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man | |
In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; | |
Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. | |
But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me | 5 |
Thy wring-world right foot rock? lay a lionlimb against me? scan | |
With darksome devouring eyes my bruisèd bones? and fan, | |
O in turns of tempest, me heaped there; me frantic to avoid thee and flee? | |
Why? That my chaff might fly; my grain lie, sheer and clear. | |
Nay in all that toil, that coil, since (seems) I kissed the rod, | 10 |
Hand rather, my heart lo! lapped strength, stole joy, would laugh, chéer. | |
Cheer whom though? the hero whose heaven-handling flung me, fóot tród | |
Me? or me that fought him? O which one? is it each one? That night, that year | |
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God. | |
--Gerard Manley Hopkins (I'll be fine.) |
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
(ok. my last one and then I'll get back to writing)
Posted by Kjerstin Evans Ballard at 9:07 PM
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