This is movement 2 of my Hopkins set. (You can hear the 1st movement here.)It is a setting of Hopkins’ poem, “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”. In the text, the poet contemplates a young child weeping over the Autumnal defoliation and, in it, he finds a metaphor for the deeper human condition. The full text is below the video.
MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving | |
Over Goldengrove unleaving? | |
Leáves, líke the things of man, you | |
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? | |
Áh! ás the heart grows older | 5 |
It will come to such sights colder | |
By and by, nor spare a sigh | |
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; | |
And yet you wíll weep and know why. | |
Now no matter, child, the name: | 10 |
Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same. | |
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed | |
What heart heard of, ghost guessed: | |
It ís the blight man was born for, | |
It is Margaret you mourn for. | 15 |
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