<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397269" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To What Serves Mortal Beauty?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To what serves mortal beauty ' —dangerous; does set danc- <br>ing blood—the O-seal-that-so ' feature, flung prouder form <br>Than Purcell tune lets tread to? ' See: it does this: keeps warm <br>Men’s wits to the things that are; ' what good means—where a glance<br>Master more may than gaze, ' gaze out of countenance.<br>Those lovely lads once, wet-fresh ' windfalls of war’s storm, <br>How then should Gregory, a father, ' have gleanèd else from swarm-<br>ed Rome? But God to a nation ' dealt that day’s dear chance. <br>To man, that needs would worship ' block or barren stone, <br>Our law says: Love what are ' love’s worthiest, were all known;<br>World’s loveliest—men’s selves. Self ' flashes off frame and face. <br>What do then? how meet beauty? ' Merely meet it; own, <br>Home at heart, heaven’s sweet gift; ' then leave, let that alone. <br>Yea, wish that though, wish all, ' God’s better beauty, grace.</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=397269" data-title="To What Serves Mortal Beauty? de Gerard Manley Hopkins" data-description="To what serves mortal beauty ' —dangerous; does set danc- ing blood—the O-seal-that-so ' feature, flung prouder form Than Purcell tune lets tread to? ' See: it does this: keeps warm Men’s wits to the things that are; ' what good means—w..."></div> </div> </div>

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