Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins
b'Hopkins read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nSpring\\nby Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 \\u2013 1889)\\n\\nNothing is so beautiful as spring\\u2014\\n When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;\\n Thrush\\u2019s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush\\nThrough the echoing timber does so rinse and wring\\nThe ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;\\n The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush\\n The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush\\nWith richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.\\n\\nWhat is all this juice and all this joy?\\n A strain of the earth\\u2019s sweet being in the beginning\\nIn Eden garden.\\u2014Have, get, before it cloy,\\n Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,\\nInnocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,\\n Most, O maid\\u2019s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.'