The Spirit of Nature (poetry)

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When the rainbow arching high
Looks from the zenith round the sky
Lit with exquisite tints seven

Caught from angels' wings in heaven,
Double, and higher than his World
The wrought rim of heaven's font,
Then may I upwards gaze and see the deepening intensity
Of the air-blended diadem . . .
Ending in sweet uncertainty 'twixt real hue and phantasy.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'II Mystico', ll. 107-15, 121-2



The Blind Girl 1856 - Sir John Everett Millais Bt PRA (1829-96)
https://victorianweb.org/painting/millais/paintings/8.html

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