Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
The plea concedes the case in its first breath — you are just, Lord, if I contend with you — and then puts the contention anyway: why do sinners' ways prosper, and why does every venture that disappoints me end in disappointment. Banks and brakes are laced with chervil and leaved how thick, the birds build, and the man who has spent himself in service breeds not one work that wakes. Hopkins set the Latin of Jeremiah 12:1 at the head of it and made his opening line a translation of that verse; he wrote it at Dublin in March 1889 and died of typhoid in June.
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