Your spouse not labored-at, nor spun.

SPRING

By Gerard Hopkins, S.J.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring—

When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush:

Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush

Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring

The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;

The glassy pear-tree leaves and blooms, they brush

The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush