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Hopkins read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\nhttp://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/\n\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\n\n---------------------------------------------------\n\nThe Windhover\nTo Christ our Lord\nby Gerard Manley Hopkins\n \nI caught this morning morning\u2019s minion, king- \n dom of daylight\u2019s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding \n Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding\nHigh there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing\nIn his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,\n As a skate\u2019s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding\n Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding\nStirred for a bird,\u2014the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!\n\nBrute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here\n Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion \nTimes told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!\n\n No wonder of it: sh\xe9er pl\xf3d makes plough down sillion\nShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,\n Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.\n\nFirst aired 28 July 2007