{"id":2438,"date":"2017-10-23T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:53","slug":"october-23-hurrahing-in-the-harvest-gerard-manley-hopkins-sj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/10\/23\/october-23-hurrahing-in-the-harvest-gerard-manley-hopkins-sj\/","title":{"rendered":"October 23 &#8211; Hurrahing in the Harvest &#8211; Gerard Manley Hopkins, sj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, October 23 \u2014 \u201c Summer ends now, now<br \/>\nbarbarous in beauty the stooks arise around\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Getting ready for a rainy day \u2014 sun rises at 7:55 and sets at 6:37: each day a little shorter and the sun a little lower in the sky, sunrise a little farther to the south. This is a season when how far north or south one lives can get our attention. I love it that we have a large open space in the north east corner of the McNichols Campus and that McNichols Road (aka 6 Mile) makes our northern boundary a true east-west survey line, keyed to 8 Mile road (which dates to the 1789 Northwest Territory survey mapping project). All that makes it easier to locate this campus against the majestic march of sunrise all through the year, and can remind us, too, that Detroit has been around a while. Do I go a little nuts in autumn? Sure do. You?<\/p>\n<p>19th century Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, loved autumn also (see today\u2019s poem just below). Even more than most great poets, GMH rewards investment in the sounds of his language. Best to read out loud, with pauses, several times and, maybe, enjoy the sky? (p.s. \u201cstooks\u201d in line one? \u201c<strong>a group of sheaves of grain stood on end in a field<\/strong>.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/10\/stooks.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2439\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/10\/stooks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/10\/stooks.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/10\/stooks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/10\/stooks-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a blest day.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s post<\/strong> \u2014 \u201c Hurrahing in The Harvest\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise<br \/>\nAround; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour<br \/>\nOf silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier<br \/>\nMeal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?<\/p>\n<p>I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,<br \/>\nDown all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour;<br \/>\nAnd, \u00e9yes, he\u00e1rt, what looks, what lips yet gave you a<br \/>\nRapturous love\u2019s greeting of realer, of rounder replies?<\/p>\n<p>And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder<br \/>\nMajestic\u2014as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet!\u2014<\/p>\n<p>These things, these things were here and but the beholder<br \/>\nWanting; which two when they once meet,<br \/>\nThe heart rears wings bold and bolder<br \/>\nAnd hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/10\/Hopkins.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1585\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/10\/Hopkins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>g m hopkins, sj<br \/>\nJuly 1844 \u2013 June 1889<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, October 23 \u2014 \u201c Summer ends now, now barbarous in beauty the stooks arise around\u201d Getting ready for a rainy day \u2014 sun rises at 7:55 and sets at 6:37: each day a little shorter and the sun a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/10\/23\/october-23-hurrahing-in-the-harvest-gerard-manley-hopkins-sj\/\">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\/2438"}],"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=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}