Elendil Voronda

Elendil Voronda
The Last Alliance of Men and Elves.

Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-1889



No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries have, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief-
woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing-
Then lull, then leave off. Fury has shrieked
"No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief".

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May he who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.

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