I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided
hail,
And a few lilies blow.
And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens
dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.
--Gerard Manley
Hopkins,
Heaven-Haven
In November we remember All Souls...
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