Across my foundering deck shone
A beacon, an eternal; beam. Flesh fade, and mortal trash
Fall to residuary worm; world’s wildfire, leave but ash:
In a flash, at a trumpet crash,
I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am, and
This jack, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, is immortal diamond.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89), That Nature is a Heraclitian Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection, 1888.
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