| Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903. | | | | Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice | | By Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) |
| | | THE DAPPLED die-away | |
| Cheek and wimpled lip, | |
| The gold-wisp, the airy-gray | |
| Eye, all in fellowship— | |
| This, all this, beauty blooming, | 5 |
| This, all this, freshness fuming, | |
| Give God while worth consuming. | |
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| Both thought and thew now bolder | |
| And told by Nature tower; | |
| Head, heart, hand, heel, and shoulder | 10 |
| That beat and breathe in power— | |
| This pride of prime’s enjoyment | |
| Take as for tool, not toy meant, | |
| And hold at Christ’s employment. | |
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| The vault and scope and schooling, | 15 |
| And mastery in the mind, | |
| In silk ash, kept from cooling, | |
| And ripest under rind— | |
| What Death half lifts the latch of, | |
| What Hell stalks towards the snatch of, | 20 |
| Your offering, with despatch, of! | | | | |
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