The Starlight Night
Look up, it begins, and it keeps giving the order: fire-folk sitting in the air, circle-citadels, dim woods with diamond delves and elves'-eyes, grey lawns cold where the quickgold lies wind-beat. All of it is for sale and the price is prayer, patience, alms and vows — a barn with the shocks inside it, and behind that wall a household. Written at St Beuno's in Wales in 1877, the year of Hopkins's ordination, and one of the sonnets he posted to Robert Bridges rather than to any editor.
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