Gerard Manley Hopkins (Джерард Мэнли Хопкинс)

The Handsome Heart

        At a Gracious Answer

'But tell me, child, your choice; what shall I buy
You?'—'Father, what you buy me I like best.'
With the sweetest air that said, still plied and pressed,
He swung to his first poised purport of reply.

What the heart is! which, like carriers let fly—
Doff darkness, homing nature knows the rest—
To its own fine function, wild and self-instressed,
Falls light as ten years long taught how to and why.

Mannerly-hearted! more than handsome face—
Beauty's bearing or muse of mounting vein,
All, in this case, bathed in high hallowing grace...

Of heaven what boon to buy you, boy, or gain
Not granted?—Only...O on that path you pace
Run all your race, O brace sterner that strain!

1. The Silver Jubilee
2. The Bugler's First Communion
3. For a Picture of St. Dorothea
4. The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe
5. Morning Midday and Evening Sacrifice

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