The Candle Indoors

Gerard Manley Hopkins

1844 to 1889

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You there are master, do your own desire;
And cast by conscience out, spendsavour salt?
I plod wondering, a-wanting, just for lack
I muse at how its being puts blissful back
Or to-fro tender trambeams truckle at the eye.
What hinders? Are you beam-blind, yet to a fault
Some candle clear burns somewhere I come by.
Come you indoors, come home; your fading fire
With yellowy moisture mild night's blear-all black,
In a neighbour deft-handed? Are you that liar
Of answer the eagerer a-wanting Jessy or Jack
By that window what task what fingers ply,
There God to aggrándise, God to glorify.—
Mend first and vital candle in close heart's vault: