Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems In Musical Adaptations Gerard Manley
Hopkins Poems In Musical Adaptations   songs index The Alchemist
play song sample  Precious cargo is a man, a man a precious
poet, priest A poet-priest, a convert, a candle, a gain Who was
hooked then plucked out of the dreaming spired flame Who was
battered, broken, unseen and unspoken and unsung But like
alchemists birth in the maw of mans earth A river is opened and
sprung  His hidden apprenticeship in Christ's sorcery To take
the base things of the earth and invest then with dignity The
name Jesuit has been baptised by guile and vile and spit Yet
many martyrs, saints and kind, they shall recover it  In
Liverpool, port and school And blessed Ireland's, island green
mess He did serve and obey rule, while tossed and torn depressed
He did not move, or seek to ask or grasp any man-thing But
inwards prove the many mansioned form God's harbour in storm and
fling.  Mans cargo and ore: Precious core of man Is storm flung,
sunken boat Tainted history: