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As Kingfishers Catch Fire

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ll be away this weekend doing various testosterone filled activities in the aid of a friend’s stag weekend, should be good fun. There isn’t an end of the week round up this week, but theres plenty of those to dig through if your interested. 

Instead I’ve posted this poem from the Eugene Peterson book I’ve been reading:

As Kingfishers Catch Fire – Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

As king fishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is –
Christ. For Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

(emphasis mine)

Tags: Miscellaneous · Theology Thoughts

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