Tek7 (Legacy)
CGA & ToJ President
God’s Grandeur
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 off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Before you cheat and Google this poem, how old do you think it is, given the content and tone?
And discuss.
NOTE: I thought I'd try this as an experiment, maybe draw in a few folks from Creation In Digital, and see what happens. If we get a good discussion going, I might be posting other poems or passages from other literature.
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 off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Before you cheat and Google this poem, how old do you think it is, given the content and tone?
And discuss.
NOTE: I thought I'd try this as an experiment, maybe draw in a few folks from Creation In Digital, and see what happens. If we get a good discussion going, I might be posting other poems or passages from other literature.