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The sonnet below was written 135 years ago, and none, none of the beauty that it describes has changed – a kestrel on a fall day, surrounded by the blues and golds of a blazing landscape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The kestrel I photographed had his soaring and striding already behind him – I had been standing under trees dropping leaves and watching, when s\/he came to rest. I don’t share Hopkin’s religious fervor – he was a Jesuit priest and actually dedicated this poem to “Christ our Lord” – but feel in complete agreement when it comes to embracing the beauty of fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I leave it with you for the days to come – I’ll take a break for Thanksgiving week and hope to return with more images of blue and gold-vermillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Windhover<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I caught this morning morning\u2019s minion, king-
dom of daylight\u2019s dauphin, dapple \u2013 dawn \u2013 drawn Falcon, in
his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate\u2019s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl
and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, \u2013the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/a><\/em> (1887)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here is the sonnet set to music<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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