Gerard Manley Hopkins: Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:

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Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:

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by Gerard Manley Hopkins
(1844 - 1889) Timeline

Original Language
English

Christian : Catholic

19th Century

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 cameŠ
     ŠFor 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.

-- from All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time, by Robert Ellsberg

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