Manley Hopkins

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    It is the blight man was born for,
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    Wild air, world-mothering air,
    Nestling me everywhere,
    That each eyelash or hair
    Girdles; goes home betwixt
    The fleeciest, frailest-fixed
    Snowflake; that’s fairly mixed
    With, riddles, and is rife
    In every least thing’s life.
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)