[Vision2020] Lights, Starry Skies, and Poetry

[Melynda Huskey]

All this talk of the night skies leads me inevitably to poetry (once an English professor, always an English professor):

 The Starlight Night
     Gerard Manley Hopkins

Look up at the stars! look, look up at the skies!  
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!  
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!  
Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes!  
The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies!  
Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare!  
Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare! --  
Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize.  


Buy then! bid then! -- What? -- Prayer, patience, alms, vows.  
Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs!  
Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows!  
These are indeed the barn; withindoors house  
The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse  
Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.  

Best,

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