What a Prayer!

from "The Wreck of the Deutschland"

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

With an anvil-ding 

And with fire in him forge thy will 

Or rather, rather then, stealing as Spring 

Through him, melt him but master him still: 

Whether at once, as once at a crash Paul, 

Or as Austin, a lingering-out swéet skíll, 

Make mercy in all of us, out of us all 

Mastery, but be adored, but be adored King.