<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397204" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Easter Communion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pure fasted faces draw unto this feast: <br>God comes all sweetness to your Lenten lips.<br>You striped in secret with breath-taking whips, <br>Those crooked rough-scored chequers may be pieced<br>To crosses meant for Jesu's; you whom the East <br>With draught of thin and pursuant cold so nips<br>Breathe Easter now; you serged fellowships, <br>You vigil-keepers with low flames decreased, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">God shall o'er-brim the measures you have spent<br>With oil of gladness, for sackcloth and frieze<br>And the ever-fretting shirt of punishment<br>Give myrrhy-threaded golden folds of ease.<br>Your scarce-sheathed bones are weary of being bent: <br>Lo, God shall strengthen all the feeble knees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gerard+Manley+Hopkins">Gerard Manley Hopkins</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397204" data-title="Easter Communion de Gerard Manley Hopkins" data-description="Pure fasted faces draw unto this feast: God comes all sweetness to your Lenten lips. You striped in secret with breath-taking whips, Those crooked rough-scored chequers may be pieced To crosses meant for Jesu's; you whom the East With draught o..."></div> </div> </div>

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