{"id":120163,"date":"2023-04-10T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=120163"},"modified":"2023-04-10T17:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T21:25:12","slug":"gerard-manley-hopkins-for-easter-gather-gladness-from-the-skies-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=120163","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Manley Hopkins for Easter&#8211;Gather gladness from the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gather gladness from the skies;<br \/>\nTake a lesson from the ground;<br \/>\nFlowers do ope their heavenward eyes<br \/>\nAnd a Spring-time joy have found;<br \/>\nEarth throws Winter\u2019s robes away,<br \/>\nDecks herself for Easter Day.<\/p>\n<p>Beauty now for ashes wear,<br \/>\nPerfumes for the garb of woe.<br \/>\nChaplets for disheveled hair,<br \/>\nDances for sad footsteps slow;<br \/>\nOpen wide your hearts that they<br \/>\nLet in joy this Easter Day.<\/p>\n<p>Seek God\u2019s house in happy throng;<br \/>\nCrowded let His table be;<br \/>\nMingle praises, prayer and song,<br \/>\nSinging to the Trinity.<br \/>\nHenceforth let your souls alway<br \/>\nMake each morn an Easter Day. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/gather-gladness-from-skies.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">&#x1f33f;Ostermontag \u2026&#x1f33f;&#x1f423;&#x1f33f; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qzkEIjT9wt\">pic.twitter.com\/qzkEIjT9wt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &#x1f4ab;Stein_harmonie&#x1f340;&#x1f9da;&#x200d;&#x2640;&#xfe0f; (@SteinHarmonie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteinHarmonie\/status\/1645347188422201345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gather gladness from the skies; Take a lesson from the ground; Flowers do ope their heavenward eyes And a Spring-time joy have found; Earth throws Winter\u2019s robes away, Decks herself for Easter Day. Beauty now for ashes wear, Perfumes for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=120163\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120165,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120163\/revisions\/120165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}