Gerard Manley Hopkins: Thou mastering me (from The Wreck of the Deutschland)

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Thou mastering me (from The Wreck of the Deutschland)

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by Gerard Manley Hopkins
(1844 - 1889) Timeline

Original Language
English

Christian : Catholic

19th Century

     Thou mastering me
          God! giver of breath and bread;
     World's strand, sway of the sea;
          Lord of living and dead;
Thou has bound bones and veins in me, fastened me in flesh,
And after it almost unmade, what with dread,
     Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh?
Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.

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

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Themes

Bread

Death

Food

Water

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