12/08/2025

Rosa Mystica

What was the color of that Blossom bright?

White to begin with, immaculate white.

But what a wild flush on the flakes of it stood,

When the Rose ran in crimsonings down the Cross-wood.

          In the Gardens of God, in the daylight divine

          I shall worship the wounds with thee, Mother of mine.

-from the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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