The earth is broken by the plough in order to flare gloriously again, and the warm colours suggest crops as well as Christ's redemptive blood. Beyond that, we glimpse some other-worldly shining, a richness not of earth alone. As always in [Gerard Manley] Hopkins's theology, Grace in the religious sense is not to be divorced from athletic, natural, often homoerotic, grace. In fact, it is fuelled by it.The Windhover
To Christ Our Lord
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Poem of the week: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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