Season one of Rhyme & Reason is finished, but we wanted to share a few bonus episodes featuring some of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s most popular poems. We’ve invited Andrew Peterson, songwriter, author, and founder of the Rabbit Room to read them. Once again, this is a reading of “God's Grandeur.”
Music from this episode was from EVOE and Doug Kaufman. Sound design and editing is by Nate Sheppard.
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Episode Transcript
I'm Andy Patton and this is a bonus episode of
Rhyme and Reason from the Rabbit Room. Season one of
Rhyme and Reason is finished, but we thought we would
share a few extra episodes to tide you over while
we're working on season two. All season long, we've been
looking at the life and work of Gerard Manley Hopkins,
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and true fans of Hopkins will have noticed that we
had to leave out a few of Hopkins most popular poems.
So we have invited Andrew Peterson, songwriter, author and founder
of The Rabbit Room, to circle back and share a
few Hopkins poems that didn't make it into the main season.
So here you go. This is Andrew Peterson giving us
another rendition of Hopkins poem, God's Grandeur.
S2 (00:49):
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It
will flame out like shining from shook foil. It gathers
to a greatness like the ooze of oil crushed. Why
do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod,
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have trod, have trod. And all is seared with trade.
Bleared smeared with toil. And wears man's smudge and shares
man's smell. The soil is bare now, nor can foot
feel being shod. And for all this nature is never spent.
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Their lives the dearest freshness deep down things. And though
the last lights off. The black west went. Oh, morning
at the brown brink. Eastward springs. Because the Holy Ghost
over the bent world. Broods with warm breast. And with ah!
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Bright wings.
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