I came upon this beautiful poem dedicated to the Blessed Mother and her month of May. I found it in the back of the Book with the Divine Office. I never would have found it if my book had not fallen and opened to the page. I love it. It is also a tribute to mothers who try to model after the Blessed Mother with God's grace. I thought I would share it with you. I do hope you enjoy it.
May is Mary's month, and I
Muse at that and wonder why:
Her feasts follow reason
Dated due to season-
Candlemas, Lady Day
But the Lady Month, May,
Why fasten that upon her
With a feasting in her honour
Is it only its being brighter
Than the most are must delight her?
Is it opportunist?
And flowers find soonest?
Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question what is Spring?
Growth in everything
Flesh and fleece, fur and feather,
grass and greenworld all together;
Star-eyed strawberry-breasted
Throstle above her nested
Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin
Forms and warms the life within;
And bird and blossom swell
In sod or sheath or shell
All things rising, all things sizing
Mary sees sympathizing
With that world of good
Nature's motherhood
Their magnifying of each its kind
With delight calls to mind
How she did in her stored
Magnify the Lord
Well but there was one more than this:
Springs universal bliss
Much had such to say
To offering Mary may
When drop-of-blood-and-form-dapple
bloom lights the orchard-apple
And thicket and thorp are merry
With silver surfed cherry.
And azuring-over greyball makes
Wood banks and brakes wash wet like lakes
And magic cuckoocall
Caps, clears and clinches all-
This ecstasy all through mothering earth
Tells Mary her mirth till Christ's Birth
To remember exultation
In God who was her salvation.
by
Gerard Manly Hopkins
Happy Mother Day to all Mothers!!!
Happy Month of May to our Mother in Heaven!!!
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