{"id":136672,"date":"2025-04-21T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136672"},"modified":"2025-04-21T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:16:42","slug":"gerard-manley-hopkins-for-easter-gather-gladness-from-the-skies-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136672","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Manley Hopkins for Easter&#8211;Gather gladness from the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gather gladness from the skies;<br>Take a lesson from the ground;<br>Flowers do ope their heavenward eyes<br>And a Spring-time joy have found;<br>Earth throws Winter\u2019s robes away,<br>Decks herself for Easter Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beauty now for ashes wear,<br>Perfumes for the garb of woe.<br>Chaplets for disheveled hair,<br>Dances for sad footsteps slow;<br>Open wide your hearts that they<br>Let in joy this Easter Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seek God\u2019s house in happy throng;<br>Crowded let His table be;<br>Mingle praises, prayer and song,<br>Singing to the Trinity.<br>Henceforth let your souls alway<br>Make each morn an Easter Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/gather-gladness-from-skies.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Golden lane at sunrise. Taken in Glastonbury on one of the lanes near Glastonbury Tor. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/izoG9eQbdA\">pic.twitter.com\/izoG9eQbdA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michelle Cowbourne (@Glastomichelle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Glastomichelle\/status\/1914263490606358656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gather gladness from the skies;Take a lesson from the ground;Flowers do ope their heavenward eyesAnd a Spring-time joy have found;Earth throws Winter\u2019s robes away,Decks herself for Easter Day. Beauty now for ashes wear,Perfumes for the garb of woe.Chaplets for disheveled<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136672\">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-136672","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\/136672","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=136672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136674,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136672\/revisions\/136674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}