<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="c-feature-hd" style="margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="c-hdgSans_2 c-mix-hdgSans_inline c-hdgSans" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; line-height: 1.231; font-weight: normal;"><font size="4" class="">The Starlight Night</font></h1></div><div class="c-feature-sub_vast c-feature-sub" style="margin: 0px 0px 33px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="c-feature-bd" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3;"><div class=" isActive o-poem" data-view="PoemView" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class="">Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies! <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class=""> O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class=""> The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class="">Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes! <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class="">The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies! <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class=""> Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare! <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class=""> Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare! <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class="">Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize. <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class="">Buy then! bid then! — What? — Prayer, patience, alms, vows. <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class="">Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs! <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class=""> Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows! <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class="">These are indeed the barn; withindoors house <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class="">The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class=""> Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows. <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-indent: -1em;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Gerard Manley Hopkins</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>