Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet like no other.
His use of sprung rhythm gives his simplest verse a lyric beauty to which none other can compare; the alliteration and words tripping off your tongue when you enunciate evoke the langour of the English countryside. Ad astra, per aspera; through his works, God's hand is clearly seen and glorified. Hopkins' poems point us to God; to wonder at the existential essence of creation and dares us to deny the existence of our Maker.
Romans 1:20-21: "For since the beginning of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood that the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened."
Futility of thought was never a fault of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
And neither, I hope, of mine.
May I remember to see His hand in the created works around me every day.
And may I neither always strive and seek for physical perfection in myself and others, but rather "God's better beauty, grace".
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