That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire
Cloud-puffball and torn tufts race across the sky, wind ropes and wrestles the elm boughs, and the ooze left by yesterday's rain is stamped, dried and starched away by the same restless element that keeps everything else moving. Man is the one thing in the bonfire whose going out matters, his mark on mind gone and his firedint quenched in an enormous dark, until a flash and a trumpet crash cut clean across the argument. Hopkins wrote it in Dublin in 1888, taking the pre-Socratic doctrine that all things are fire and setting the comfort of the Resurrection against it, as the full title announces.
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