its foam recalls a fleece, it "flutes" like a songbird, and lows or booms with bovine majesty. It contains all of creation, like some kind of primal, protean life-force.
Throughout the poem, [Gerard Manley] Hopkins explores the way nature flows between extremes to form one eternal circuit.
from Christopher Nield: The Epoch Times: The Antidote--Classic Poetry for Today
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protean.. i love that word :)..
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