{"id":1320,"date":"2015-04-15T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:30","slug":"april-15-rushing-the-summer-a-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/04\/15\/april-15-rushing-the-summer-a-little\/","title":{"rendered":"April 15  &#8212;  Rushing the summer a little"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday April 15 &#8211; \u00a0\u201cfor skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gerard Manley Hopkins, sj wrote this jewel of praise in 1877; it was only published in 1918, long after he died in 1889. \u00a0 What is it like to write with such grace and not much expectation of recognition \u00a0. . . . \u00a0? \u00a0 \u00a0Teachers do that over and over. \u00a0 They write critiques of student\u2019s work on the margins of lab reports, or assigned papers; they scold and encourage during office hours and on the sidewalk. \u00a0So do lots of the women and men who work at a university, in this place of learning. \u00a0Encouraging students, especially when coupled with candor, is one of the great deeds of employees at universities around the world.\u00a0 Gratitude can go unnoticed for years, like this poem did. \u00a0And surprise can run deep when you hear intense respect years later.\u00a0 The saying, \u201cbeauty is its own reward\u201d? \u00a0 Hopkins gets it.<\/p>\n<p>Best to read the poem several times, out loud with pauses. \u00a0Maybe while glancing at the sky or the green grass. \u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s not summer yet but it sure is Spring.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john st sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post, \u00a0\u201cPied Beauty\u201d \u00a0Gerard Manley Hopkins, sj<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GLORY be to God for dappled things\u2014<br \/>\nFor skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;<br \/>\nFor rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;<br \/>\nFresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches\u2019 wings;<br \/>\nLandscape plotted and pieced\u2014fold, fallow, and plough;<br \/>\nAnd \u00e1ll tr\u00e1des, their gear and tackle and trim.<\/p>\n<p>All things counter, original, spare, strange;<br \/>\nWhatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)<br \/>\nWith swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;<br \/>\nHe fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:<br \/>\nPraise him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/04\/GMHopkins.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1321 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/04\/GMHopkins.jpg\" alt=\"GMHopkins\" width=\"217\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>G.\u00a0M. Hopkins, sj \u00a0 1844-1889<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday April 15 &#8211; \u00a0\u201cfor skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow\u201d Gerard Manley Hopkins, sj wrote this jewel of praise in 1877; it was only published in 1918, long after he died in 1889. \u00a0 What is it like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/04\/15\/april-15-rushing-the-summer-a-little\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/1320"}],"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=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}