vendredi 8 février 2008

As kingfishers - Gerard Manley Hopkins


As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame ;
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 What I do is me : for that I came.

I say more : the just man justices ;
Keeps grace : that keeps all his goings graces ;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is -
Christ - 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.

2 commentaires:

mangeur d'homme a dit…

dragonflies, selon ed. Gardner (Penguin Classics)

Chloé Laplantine a dit…

mangeur d'homme,
tu as raison, je corrige