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domingo, 3 de outubro de 2010

Poesia (15) | Gerard Manley Hopkins - As kingfishers catch fire

Não, não é falta de conhecimento de outras referências, mas um testemunho de encanto incontido sempre que me cruzo com os exigentes poemas sanguíneos de Gerard Manley Hopkins. Desta feita aqui fica o suspiro vital de As kingfishers catch fire. Que possa ser uma boa companhia neste dia.


As kingfishers catch fire

                              As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme;
                              As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
                              Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s
                              Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
                              Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
                              Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
                              Selves - goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
                              Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came.

                              Í say móre: the just man justices;
                              Kéeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings graces;
                              Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is -
                              Chríst - for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
                              Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
                              To the Father through the features of men’s faces. 

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