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"K. Jean Cotterman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:49:17 -0500
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<This moved me so much I just wanted to share a few lines. If anyone would like the entire poem contact me privately.


Quoted in a recent article about the life of the poet:


From the poem "God's Grandeur"
      Gerard Manley Hopkins


 (from the end of the second verse)
 
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs ---
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.>

DUH! Talk about a 'one-track mind'!!!  Having re-read this multiple times, it now just suddenly dawned on me that the dove too has a warm breast (though it lactates not;-), as well as wings, and for eons, has been used as a spiritual symbol for love that words cannot express. Oh well, looking at it in the context of the human type of 'warm breast' it still seems beautiful to me, and 'full of bonding symbolism'!

K. Jean Cotterman RNC-E, IBCLC
WIC Volunteer LC     Dayton OH

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