Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice"

G. K. Chesterton wrote: “Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.” Perhaps Hopkins was anticipating that sentiment in today’s poem. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe