{"id":26339,"date":"2011-03-28T08:53:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/give-beauty-back-to-god-beauty\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:53:38","slug":"give-beauty-back-to-god-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/give-beauty-back-to-god-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Give beauty back to God, beauty’s self and beauty’s giver"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A striking line
\nin Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo,” “Give
\nbeauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty’s self and beauty’s
\ngiver.”  English Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins
\n(1844-1889) was renowned for his use of Blessed John Duns Scotus’ theology
\nand his creative use of language and rhythm (notice Hopkins’ characteristic
\nstresses on certain words).<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/font><\/font><\/font>The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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(Maiden’s song
\nfrom St. Winefred’s Well)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Leaden Echo<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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How to kéep–is there ány any, is
\nthere none such, nowhere known some, bow or <\/span><\/p>\n

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brooch or braid or brace, láce,
\nlatch or catch or key to keep\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

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Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty, …
\nfrom vanishing away?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ó is there no frowning of these wrinkles, rankéd wrinkles
\ndeep,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dówn? no waving off of these most mournful messengers, still <\/span><\/p>\n

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messengers,
\nsad and stealing messengers of grey?\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

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No there ‘s none, there ‘s none, O no
\nthere ‘s none,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nor can you long be, what you now are, called fair,\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

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Do what you
\nmay do, what, do what you may,\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

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And wisdom is early to despair:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Be beginning;
\nsince, no, nothing can be done<\/span><\/p>\n

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To keep at bay<\/span><\/p>\n

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Age and age’s evils, hoar
\nhair,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ruck and wrinkle, drooping, dying, death’s worst, winding sheets, tombs
\nand worms and<\/span><\/p>\n

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tumbling to decay;<\/span><\/p>\n

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So be beginning, be beginning to despair.<\/span><\/p>\n

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O
\nthere ‘s none; no no no there ‘s none:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Be beginning to despair, to
\ndespair,<\/span>
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Despair, despair, despair, despair.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Golden Echo<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/b><\/span>  <\/span><\/div>\n
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       Spare!<\/span><\/p>\n

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There ís one, yes I have one (Hush there!);<\/span><\/p>\n

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Only not within seeing of the sun,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Not within the singeing of the strong sun,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tall sun’s tingeing, or treacherous the tainting of the earth’s air,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Somewhere elsewhere there is ah well where! one,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oné. Yes I can tell such a key, I do know such a place,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Where whatever’s prized and passes of us, everything that ‘s fresh and fast flying of us, seems<\/span><\/p>\n

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to us sweet of us and swiftly away with, done away with, undone,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Undone, done with, soon done with, and yet dearly and dangerously sweet<\/span><\/p>\n

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Of us, the wimpled-water-dimpled, not-by-morning-matchèd face,<\/span><\/p>\n

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The flower of beauty, fleece of beauty, too too apt to, ah! to fleet,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Never fleets móre, fastened with the tenderest truth<\/span><\/p>\n

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To its own best being and its loveliness of youth: it is an everlastingness of, O it is an all youth!\u2028Come then, your ways and airs and looks, locks, maiden gear, gallantry and gaiety and grace,\u2028Winning ways, airs innocent, maiden manners, sweet looks, loose locks, long locks, lovelocks, gaygear, going gallant, girlgrace–<\/span><\/p>\n

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Resign them, sign them, seal them, send them, motion them with breath,<\/span><\/p>\n

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And with sighs soaring, soaring síghs deliver<\/span><\/p>\n

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Them; beauty-in-the-ghost, deliver it, early now, long before death<\/span><\/p>\n

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Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty’s self and beauty’s giver.<\/span><\/p>\n

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See; not a hair is, not an eyelash, not the least lash lost; every hair<\/span><\/p>\n

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Is, hair of the head, numbered.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nay, what we had lighthanded left in surly the mere mould<\/span><\/p>\n

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Will have waked and have waxed and have walked with the wind what while we slept,<\/span><\/p>\n

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This side, that side hurling a heavyheaded hundredfold<\/span><\/p>\n

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What while we, while we slumbered.<\/span><\/p>\n

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O then, weary then why<\/span><\/p>\n

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When the thing we freely fórfeit is kept with fonder a care,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fonder a care kept than we could have kept it, kept<\/span><\/p>\n

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Far with fonder a care (and we, we should have lost it) finer, fonder<\/span><\/p>\n

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A care kept.–Where kept? Do but tell us where kept, where.–<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yonder.–What high as that! We follow, now we follow.–Yonder, yes yonder, yonder,<\/span>
<\/p>\n

Yonder.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A striking line in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo,” “Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty’s self and beauty’s giver.”  English Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was renowned for his use of Blessed John Duns Scotus’ theology and his creative use of language and rhythm (notice Hopkins’ characteristic … Continue reading Give beauty back to God, beauty’s self and beauty’s giver<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2400,1734,1881],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}