<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397211" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hope Holds to Christ</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">. . . . . . . .<br>Hope holds to Christ the mind’s own mirror out <br>To take His lovely likeness more and more. <br>It will not well, so she would bring about <br>An ever brighter burnish than before <br>And turns to wash it from her welling eyes<br>And breathes the blots off all with sighs on sighs. <br>Her glass is blest but she as good as blind <br>Holds till hand aches and wonders what is there; <br>Her glass drinks light, she darkles down behind, <br>All of her glorious gainings unaware.<br>. . . . . . . .<br>I told you that she turned her mirror dim <br>Betweenwhiles, but she sees herself not Him.<br>. . . . . . . .</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=397211" data-title="Hope Holds to Christ de Gerard Manley Hopkins" data-description=". . . . . . . . Hope holds to Christ the mind’s own mirror out To take His lovely likeness more and more. It will not well, so she would bring about An ever brighter burnish than before And turns to wash it from her welling eyes And breathes..."></div> </div> </div>

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