Friday, August 22, 2008

Prayer

My own heart let me more have pity on; let

Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,

Charitable; not live this tormented mind

With this tormented mind tormenting yet.


I cast for comfort I can no more get

By groping round my comfortless, than blind

Eyes in their dark can day or thirst can find...




- from Gerard Manley Hopkins'
"My own heart let me more have pity on"

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