That the Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection

Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows ' flaunt forth, then chevy on an air- 

built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs ' they throng; they glitter in marches.Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, ' wherever an elm arches,    

Shivelights and shadowtackle in long ' lashes lace, lance, and pair.      

Delightfully the bright wind boisterous ' ropes, wrestles, beats earth bare

Of yestertempest’s creases; in pool and rut peel parches

Squandering ooze to squeezed ' dough, crust, dust; stanches, starches

Squadroned masks and manmarks ' treadmire toil there          

Footfretted in it. Million-fuelèd, ' nature’s bonfire burns on.      

But quench her bonniest, dearest ' to her, her clearest-selvèd spark              

Man, how fast his firedint, ' his mark on mind, is gone! 

Both are in an unfathomable, all is in an enormous dark           

Drowned. O pity and indig ' nation! Manshape, that shone      

Sheer off, disseveral, a star, ' death blots black out; nor mark   

                Is any of him at all so stark               

But vastness blurs and time ' beats level. Enough! the Resurrection,     

A heart’s-clarion! Away grief’s gasping, ' joyless days, dejection.         

                Across my foundering deck shone        

A beacon, an eternal beam. ' Flesh fade, and mortal trash         

Fall to the residuary worm; ' world’s wildfire, leave but ash:           

                In a flash, at a trumpet crash,    

I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and    

This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,        

                Is immortal diamond.

Gerard Manley Hopkins