James Martin's Book About Spirituality (BOOK REVIEW)

On page 382, Martin quotes the Victorian Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' explicitly christocentric poem:

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;

As tumbled over rim in roundy wells

Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's

Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:

Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;

Selves -" goes itself; MYSELF it speaks and spells,

Crying WHAT I DO IS ME: FOR THAT I CAME.

I say more: the just man justices;

Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;

Acts in God's eyes what in God's eyes he is -"

Christ -" for Christ plays in ten thousand places,

Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his

To the Father through the features of men's faces.

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