<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397250" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The May Magnificat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">May is Mary's month, and I <br>Muse at that and wonder why: <br>Her feasts follow reason, <br>Dated due to season-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Candlemas, Lady Day; <br>But the Lady Month, May, <br>Why fasten that upon her, <br>With a feasting in her honour?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it only its being brighter <br>Than the most are must delight her? <br>Is it opportunest <br>And flowers finds soonest?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ask of her, the mighty mother: <br>Her reply puts this other <br>Question: What is Spring?- <br>Growth in every thing-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flesh and fleece, fur and feather, <br>Grass and greenworld all together; <br>Star-eyed strawberry-breasted <br>Throstle above her nested</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin <br>Forms and warms the life within; <br>And bird and blossom swell <br>In sod or sheath or shell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All things rising, all things sizing <br>Mary sees, sympathising <br>With that world of good, <br>Nature's motherhood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their magnifying of each its kind <br>With delight calls to mind <br>How she did in her stored <br>Magnify the Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well but there was more than this: <br>Spring's universal bliss <br>Much, had much to say <br>To offering Mary May.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When drop-of-blood-and-foam-dapple <br>Bloom lights the orchard-apple <br>And thicket and thorp are merry <br>With silver-surfed cherry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And azuring-over greybell makes <br>Wood banks and brakes wash wet like lakes <br>And magic cuckoocall <br>Caps, clears, and clinches all-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This ecstasy all through mothering earth <br>Tells Mary her mirth till Christ's birth <br>To remember and exultation <br>In God who was her salvation.</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=397250" data-title="The May Magnificat de Gerard Manley Hopkins" data-description="May is Mary's month, and I Muse at that and wonder why: Her feasts follow reason, Dated due to season- Candlemas, Lady Day; But the Lady Month, May, Why fasten that upon her, With a feasting in her honour? Is it only its being brighter Th..."></div> </div> </div>

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