sweeping around in black
Aug. 27th, 2005 01:50 amThree Day Weekend.
(Well, there was work today, but it got done.)
And I handed in my latest chunk of Exalted work, so now that's out of the way too.
Wore my new cardigan at work today. I was most splendidly warm. Several people commented on it jealously. Hah.
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire
As kingfishers 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.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Well, there was work today, but it got done.)
And I handed in my latest chunk of Exalted work, so now that's out of the way too.
Wore my new cardigan at work today. I was most splendidly warm. Several people commented on it jealously. Hah.
---
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
As kingfishers 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.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins