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    The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89)
童元方著《一樣花開‧燧石之火》台北：爾雅叢書，1996，頁219-227
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windhover =kestrel隼

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).  Poems.  1918.

12. The Windhover

To Christ our Lord

I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-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,	5
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion	10
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.
See Notes.

dauphin

Syllabification: (dau·phin)

Pronunciation: /ˈdôfin/

noun

historical

• the eldest son of the king of France.

Origin:

French, from the family name of the lords of the Dauphiné (first used in this way in the 14th century), ultimately a nickname meaning 'dolphin'

dapple

Syllabification: (dap·ple)

Pronunciation: /ˈdapəl/

verb

[with object] (usually be dappled)

• mark with spots or rounded patches:the floor was dappled with pale moonlight

noun

• a patch or spot of color or light.
• an animal whose coat is marked with patches or spots.

Origin:

late 16th century (earlier as an adjective): perhaps related to Old Norse depill 'spot'

up
v., upped, up·ping, ups. v.tr.

1. To increase: upped their fees; upping our output.
2. To raise to a higher level, especially to promote to a higher position.
3. Nautical. To raise: up anchor; up sail.

v.intr.

1. To get up; rise.
2. Informal. To act suddenly or unexpectedly: "She upped and perjured her immortal soul" (Margery Allingham).