“God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.


wikipedia poem, no. 44

after Battletoads theme for Sega Genesis

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    a singing human measures the twelve gates of Almighty beryl
     for God 
       seventh chrysolite  the names     scratched into the sun of the Lord 
His foundations will show       will with 
you           leave behind nations 
      carry me seventh chrysolite
          Almighty beryl 
foundations and sapphire as          Lord God 
pure Holy City       you the names of life measuring rod of the 
thick great gates of three  on
        no day will seconds show 
    twelfth onyx them      of 
       the will long kings 
as pure as twelve gates were and three gates are 
	show you   the city enshrouds by three

* * *

      They were “Come “Come “C as a chorister 
written in the carried “Come “Come communion 
He had a mountain-great street and “Come 

of God    “Come “Come “Come “Oh comely 
“Come “Come “Come “Come “Come alone
It shows you the       “Come “Come 
the wife of a square “Come “Come “Come “Come 
as you are   “Come “Come “Come “Come 

        light on beryl three       “Come “Come “Come 
          gates against the day    “Come
  three gates and the second said to me “Come “Come 
    “Come

* * *

 nations 
       on to the 
shine

      	splendor 
     for that nation which nations of the city of God Almighty beryl   their 
temple in the 

willing bride  three gates on shine to measure what was
           who talked with topaz three gates the Lamb
carrying       its seven angels 

          me  and there   sky   through the dome of 
the bride           as 12,000 
  gates me and with the ever be 

      and the nation will bring down His rod 
	you who carried 
          city    shown 
       was      the wife of God
like jasper clear as a lamp
south shining and high past the wall wall wall with every kind 
      of kindly measured cubit    The city  lists   its wall 
    all shine on will.

wikipedia poem, no. 35

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[Praise to you that we lord over]
 What are you good at that most other's aren't? 
we 
         are 
    ‘Yes  yes’ and 
fully 
in 
Christ

   Praise to you 
      that we 
       lord 
over our ability to that in answer to be to endurance 
of 
come 
to understand And our come to 
         be to come 
to be under to you for you 
          patient of manner so this spoken by us from 
such a deposit  guaranteed 
us
        as your flesh
how many 
produce
in and he will 
        of 
      Christ  the church of us 
^ by 
you firm If we lord 
it has delivered of the 
   church of Christ 
  
        Paul  
our 
  comfort
Praise to you any will 
deliver of God  gracious from such 
        a death I say 
both ‘Yes & yes’ in then 
       many troubles  
‘yes’ and 
    the 
troubles  
so 
the day of God  Jesus 
for your share 
       ‘Yes  yes’ and sisters abound through him we 
share 
abundantly 
  in this  I 
     was 
          continued to 
be 
to you anything what is 
ourselves 
both 
      ‘Yes & yes’ and especially in part  
          ‘Yes’ who raise to 
       the troubles  ‘yes’ and 
put 
his first 
  for 
your 
  hearts as my with all God  Jesus 
     
        Because we 
     lord it 
     has always been ‘Yes & yes’ in Christ 

Praise God is our relay 
   on 
God is  for you  patient of God’s gracious Creation  
Jesus by your message to be to be to you 
is for you a heart as sure as far beyond our hearts 
as we 
had 
received that as we had experienced that in our come 
to come to 
      deliver
    of God           a favored 
heart has always 
      been ‘Yes   &   yes’ 
and 
so they are ‘Yes  
& yes’ and ‘No    &
         no’ finally
        
 But as your 
    message delivered of 
     ownership on our message to deliver of many 
wills at
       God in 
a 
      world  
    apostle’d of 

      this  
      I 
    was continuing to understand ‘No & no’

But those 
it has 
      a deposit guaranteed 
us   set 
on our 
   hearts as we lord Jesus 

Because we 
        lord Jesus 

      Because 
    we itself  Indeed  it has delivered us in all 
comfort that is 
          faith  
      but 
we have seen 
        sentenced an answer to this happening
   the 
  day 
of many troubles  ‘Yes & yes’ 
and 
    to that you 
          share ‘Yes & yes’ and first so the Son of us in him
          when to be to your hope for you that 
      in 
       our 
relay of wills  and 
      fully in the sufferings 
of manners so 
that 
we 
          despaired 
of 
        ownership on 
    our confident endurance 
testifying through 
Him it has always been ‘Yes & yes’ suddenly so 
      the gracious ‘No & no’ from 
Macedonia and Timothy 
       ^ was conscience in 
    his pressed brother 

To 
the will of the 
sufferings of Asia & the Middle East  
      We had received from such 
  a death 
       I say 
both 
        ‘Yes & no’  so 
this 
happened the ‘America’ 
  is our hearts as sure  
far beyond our 
comfort
Praise to be to you 
        patient 
         of 
God is our faithful son our 
  relay beyond our relay on
          us in 
us 
for us
part of  
       
       who comes to deliver
of 
      God is first 
so suffering 
      of 
us you  
      witness ^ 
    by your message to the despaired of all 
       God you
          witness ^ 
God  our 
message 
         to 
be 
   to be to spare ‘Yes & yes’ 
and first 
our faith your relay 
      on life 
it has a death 
and I 
  stand  
both of us from Macedonia and you firm 
        in health 
  in him & ‘Yes & yes’ it has always 
    been ‘Yes & yes’ and 
he with you anything 
       and 
despair our 
        many 
      promises  gracious from patient 
         endurance far 
beyond our 
message to endurance of all 
          God