{"id":79159,"date":"2021-01-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=79159"},"modified":"2020-12-21T10:18:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T17:18:36","slug":"the-habit-of-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/02\/the-habit-of-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Habit of Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Now that I’m not regularly blogging any more, I’m using my blog to store stuff which I want to be able to find quickly. That’s why today I’d like to share my favourite poem from Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Habit of Perfection<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Habit of Perfection<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elected Silence, sing to me
And beat upon my whorl\u00e8d ear,
Pipe me to pastures still and be
The music that I care to hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shape nothing, lips; be lovely-dumb:
It is the shut, the curfew sent
From there where all surrenders come
Which only makes you eloquent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be shell\u00e8d, eyes, with double dark
And find the uncreated light:
This ruck and reel which you remark
Coils, keeps, and teases simple sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palate, the hutch of tasty lust,
Desire not to be rinsed with wine:
The can must be so sweet, the crust
So fresh that come in fasts divine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nostrils, your careless breath that spend
Upon the stir and keep of pride,
What relish shall the censers send
Along the sanctuary side!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O feel-of-primrose hands, O feet
That want the yield of plushy sward,
But you shall walk the golden street
And you unhouse and house the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, Poverty, be thou the bride
And now the marriage feast begun,
And lily-coloured clothes provide
Your spouse not laboured-at nor spun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’d like to read an analysis of this poem, this one<\/a> is quite good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that I’m not regularly blogging any more, I’m using my blog to store stuff which I want to be able to find quickly. That’s why today I’d like to share my favourite poem from Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Habit of Perfection: The Habit of Perfection Elected Silence, sing to meAnd beat upon my whorl\u00e8d ear,Pipe me to pastures still and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[823],"class_list":["post-79159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-gerard-manley-hopkins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79197,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79159\/revisions\/79197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}