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Friday, October 31, 2008

Memorial of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez SJ


- Alphonsus Rodriguez SJ

I posted this poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ a couple of years ago, but wanted to again ....

In Honour Of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez

Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say;
And those strokes once that gashed flesh or galled shield
Should tongue that time now, trumpet now that field,
And, on the fighter, forge his glorious day.

On Christ they do and on the martyr may;
But be the war within, the brand we wield
Unseen, the heroic breast not outward-steeled,
Earth hears no hurtle then from fiercest fray.

Yet God (that hews mountain and continent,
Earth, all, out; who, with trickling increment,
Veins violets and tall trees makes more and more)
Could crowd career with conquest while there went
Those years and years by of world without event
That in Majorca Alfonso watched the door.


4 Comments:

Blogger Jeff said...

Wow, a married Jesuit who'd had children.

Happy Halloween, Crys!

Sorry to hear about the troubles you and Kermit have been going through.

7:27 AM  
Blogger crystal said...

Hi Jeff,

Happy Halloween! :)

Thanks about Kermit.

10:45 AM  
Blogger cowboyangel said...

Always like when you post Hopkins.

1:14 PM  
Blogger crystal said...

yeah, he's good.

1:31 PM  

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