God's Grandeur
The world is charged with a grandeur that flames out like light off shaken foil and gathers to a greatness like oil crushed from seed, and the question put in the fourth line is why men then do not reck his rod. Generations have trodden the ground bare, all is seared with trade and smeared with toil, and the soil lies bare now under a foot that cannot feel, being shod. One of the sonnets written in Wales in 1877, the year Hopkins was ordained, and unread by anyone but his correspondents until Robert Bridges issued the poems thirty years after his death.
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