Thursday, December 11, 2008
"Thou mastering me God ...."
"Thou mastering me God! giver of breath and bread;
World's strand, sway of the sea;
Lord of living and dead;
Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me 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 The Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ.