{"id":10,"date":"2008-07-14T17:39:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T21:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=10"},"modified":"2008-07-14T17:39:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T21:39:28","slug":"the-leaden-echo-and-the-golden-echo-gerard-manley-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo – Gerard Manley Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

[audio:leadenecho.mp3] (4:44)
\nread by Dylan Thomas, The Caedmon Collection<\/em>. audio from salon.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Leaden Echo<\/p>\n

How to k\u00e9ep\u2014is there \u00e1ny any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, l\u00e1ce, latch or catch or key to keep
\nBack beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty, … from vanishing away?
\n\u00d3 is there no frowning of these wrinkles, rank\u00e9d wrinkles deep,
\nD\u00f3wn? no waving off of these most mournful messengers, still messengers, sad and stealing messengers of grey?
\nNo there \u2019s none, there \u2019s none, O no there \u2019s none,
\nNor can you long be, what you now are, called fair,
\nDo what you may do, what, do what you may,
\nAnd wisdom is early to despair:
\nBe beginning; since, no, nothing can be done
\nTo keep at bay
\nAge and age\u2019s evils, hoar hair,
\nRuck and wrinkle, drooping, dying, death\u2019s worst, winding sheets, tombs and worms and tumbling to decay;
\nSo be beginning, be beginning to despair.
\nO there \u2019s none; no no no there \u2019s none:
\nBe beginning to despair, to despair,
\nDespair, despair, despair, despair.<\/p>\n

The Golden Echo<\/p>\n

\"\"Spare!
\nThere \u00eds one, yes I have one (Hush there!);
\nOnly not within seeing of the sun,
\nNot within the singeing of the strong sun,
\nTall sun\u2019s tingeing, or treacherous the tainting of the earth\u2019s air,
\nSomewhere elsewhere there is ah well where! one,
\nOn\u00e9. Yes I can tell such a key, I do know such a place,
\nWhere whatever\u2019s prized and passes of us, everything that \u2019s fresh and fast flying of us, seems to us sweet of us and swiftly away with, done away with, undone,
\nUndone, done with, soon done with, and yet dearly and dangerously sweet
\nOf us, the wimpled-water-dimpled, not-by-morning-match\u00e8d face,
\nThe flower of beauty, fleece of beauty, too too apt to, ah! to fleet,
\nNever fleets m\u00f3re, fastened with the tenderest truth
\nTo its own best being and its loveliness of youth: it is an everlastingness of, O it is an all youth!
\nCome then, your ways and airs and looks, locks, maiden gear, gallantry and gaiety and grace,
\nWinning ways, airs innocent, maiden manners, sweet looks, loose locks, long locks, lovelocks, gaygear, going gallant, girlgrace\u2014
\nResign them, sign them, seal them, send them, motion them with breath,
\nAnd with sighs soaring, soaring s\u00edghs deliver
\nThem; beauty-in-the-ghost, deliver it, early now, long before death
\nGive beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty\u2019s self and beauty\u2019s giver.
\nSee; not a hair is, not an eyelash, not the least lash lost; every hair
\nIs, hair of the head, numbered.
\nNay, what we had lighthanded left in surly the mere mould
\nWill have waked and have waxed and have walked with the wind what while we slept,
\nThis side, that side hurling a heavyheaded hundredfold
\nWhat while we, while we slumbered.
\nO then, weary then why should we tread? O why are we so haggard at the heart, so care-coiled, care-killed, so fagged, so fashed, so cogged, so cumbered,
\nWhen the thing we freely f\u00f3rfeit is kept with fonder a care,
\nFonder a care kept than we could have kept it, kept
\nFar with fonder a care (and we, we should have lost it) finer, fonder
\nA care kept.\u2014Where kept? Do but tell us where kept, where.\u2014
\nYonder.\u2014What high as that! We follow, now we follow.\u2014
\nYonder, yes yonder, yonder,
\nYonder.<\/p>\n

(1882)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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