Favorite Poems: 25-20
25. In Honour Of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Laybrother of the Society of Jesus
Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say;
And those strokes once that gashed flesh or galled shield
Should tongue that time now, trumpet now that field,
And, on the fighter, forge his glorious day.
On Christ they do and on the martyr may;
But be the war within,…
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