{"id":12,"date":"2013-11-27T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=12"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:51:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:51:37","slug":"nov-27-about-beauty-and-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2013\/11\/27\/nov-27-about-beauty-and-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"about beauty and a break"},"content":{"rendered":"

I said yesterday’s blessing of hands would be the last posting before Thanksgiving Break — changed my mind looking out at the November dawn today and smiling all over because of this break. \u00a0Here’s a Hopkins praise of beauty. \u00a0 I wonder if anything restores fatigue \u00a0so much as a slow-down pace and the presence of beauty.<\/p>\n

See you next week.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

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Gerard Manley Hopkins\u00a0(1844\u201389).\u00a0\u00a0Poems.\u00a0\u00a01918.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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13. Pied Beauty<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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GLORY\u00a0be to God for dappled things\u2014<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches\u2019 wings;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0Landscape plotted and pieced\u2014fold, fallow, and plough;<\/td>\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And \u00e1ll tr\u00e1des, their gear and tackle and trim.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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All things counter, original, spare, strange;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:<\/td>\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Praise him.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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I said yesterday’s blessing of hands would be the last posting before Thanksgiving Break — changed my mind looking out at the November dawn today and smiling all over because of this break. \u00a0Here’s a Hopkins praise of beauty. \u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}