Monday, April 23, \u00a0\u201cWhat is all this juice and all this joy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Gerard Manley Hopkins, sj wrote \u00a0\u201cSpring\u201d in language alive with sensual delight, a breath of \u00a0fresh air after this April\u2019s ice storms and cold winds. \u00a0\u201cRisk some delight\u201d says Hopkins. \u00a0 Best to read every poem out loud, with pauses. \u00a0 Hopkins rewards the reader’s attention more than most.<\/p>\n
Have a blest week,<\/p>\n
john sj<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Post \u00a0 \u201cSpring\u201d \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Nothing is so beautiful as Spring \u2013 What is all this juice and all this joy? Monday, April 23, \u00a0\u201cWhat is all this juice and all this joy?\u201d Gerard Manley Hopkins, sj wrote \u00a0\u201cSpring\u201d in language alive with sensual delight, a breath of \u00a0fresh air after this April\u2019s ice storms and cold winds. \u00a0\u201cRisk some delight\u201d … Continue reading
\nWhen weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
\nThrush\u2019s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
\nThrough the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
\nThe ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
\nThe glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
\nThe descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
\nWith richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.<\/p>\n
\nA strain of the earth\u2019s sweet being in the beginning
\nIn Eden garden. \u2013 Have, get, before it cloy,
\nBefore it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
\nInnocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
\nMost, O maid\u2019s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"