The Poetry Corner

Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, | vaulty, voluminous, . . stupendous Evening strains to be tme's vst, | womb-of-all, home-of-all, hearse-of-all night. Her fond yellow hornlight wound to the west, | her wild hollow hoarlight hung to the height Waste; her earliest stars, earl-stars, | strs principal, overbend us, Fre-faturing heaven. For earth | her being has unbound, her dapple is at an end, as- tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; | self n self steepd and pashed - qite Disremembering, dsmembering | ll now. Heart, you round me right With: ur vening is over us; ur night | whlms, whlms, nd will end us. Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish | damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black, Ever so black on it. ur tale, ur oracle! | Lt life, wned, ah lt life wind Off hr once skined stained vined varety | upon, ll on tw spools; prt, pen, pck Now her ll in tw flocks, tw folds - black, white; | right, wrong; reckon but, reck but, mind But thse two; wre of a wrld where bt these | tw tell, each off the ther; of a rack Where, selfwrung, selfstrung, sheathe- and shelterless, | thughts aganst thoughts n groans grnd.