Gerard Manley Hopkins — The Starlight Night

8 The Starlight Night LOOK at the stars! look, look up at the skies!    O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!    The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes! The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies!    Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare!    Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare!— Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize. Buy then! bid then!—What?—Prayer, patience, alms,      vows. Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs!    Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow      sallows! These are indeed the barn; withindoors house The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse    Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.