{"id":1776,"date":"2016-03-07T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:53","slug":"spring-break-march-7-59o-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/03\/07\/spring-break-march-7-59o-this-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Break – March 7 — “59\u00ba this afternoon”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, March 7 \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0 “<\/strong>There lives the dearest freshness deep down things”<\/strong><\/p>\n

When students disembark for a week, their campus breathes in a more relaxed fashion; \u00a0lots of employees can turn from work-day jobs to their pile of longer term tasks that always form a backdrop to their \u201cdo this NOW<\/u>\u201d stuff.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a joy, too, to wake to elegant, spring-like sunshine offering powder blue air all around. \u00a0Warmer too, \u00a0Weather.com<\/a> says 59\u00ba this afternoon.<\/p>\n

There may be no better poem for such an inviting morning than \u201cGod\u2019s Grandeur.\u201d \u00a0As with every strong poet, every word matters. \u00a0If you live in Detroit or any other place where the sun colors everything outside today, you might try reading this G. M. Hopkins, sj masterpiece from some place where you can see the sky.<\/p>\n

Blessings on your week.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

God\u2019s Grandeur<\/h1>\n

Gerard Manley Hopkins,\u00a01844\u00a0–\u00a01889<\/h2>\n

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
\nIt will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
\nIt gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
\nCrushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
\nGenerations have trod, have trod, have trod;
\nAnd all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
\nAnd wears man\u2019s smudge and shares man\u2019s smell: the soil
\nIs bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.<\/p>\n

And for all this, nature is never spent;
\nThere lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
\nAnd though the last lights off the black West went
\nOh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs–
\nBecause the Holy Ghost over the bent
\nWorld broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.<\/p>\n

Gerard Manley Hopkins, sj 1844-1889<\/p>\n

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