Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916. | | | | The Candle Indoors |
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) |
| | | SOME 1 candle clear burns somewhere I come by. | |
| I muse at how its being puts blissful back | |
| With a yellowy moisture mild night’s blear-all black; | |
| Or to-fro tender trambeams truckle at the eye. | |
| At that window what task what fingers ply, | 5 |
| I plod wondering, a-wanting, just for lack | |
| Of answer the eagerer awanting Jessy or Jack | |
| There, God to aggrandise, God to glorify.— | |
| Come you indoors, come home; your fading fire | |
| Mend first and vital candle in close heart’s vault: | 10 |
| You there are master, do your own desire; | |
| What hinders? Are you beam-blind, yet to a fault | |
| In a neighbour deft-handed? Are you that liar? | |
| And cast by conscience out, spendsavour salt? | |
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