Page 104 of The Gathering Storm

BOOK THREE

GOING HOME

I say more: the just man justices,

Keeps grace; that keeps all his goings graces;

Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is –

Christ – for Christ plays in ten thousand places,

Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his,

To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

Gerard Manley Hopkins: ‘As Kingfishers Catch Fire,

Dragonflies Draw Flame’