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In “The May Magnificat” Gerald Hopkins describes the merry month of May as Mary's month, and for that reason it is all the more magnificent. May is Mary's month because she is no other than the great Mother Goddess of earth's renewal. When he asks the 'mighty mother' why May is her month she answers with her own question: 'What is Spring?', to which she answers 'Growth in every thing -' Flesh and fleece, …

…the "star-eyed strawberry-breasted" thrush — strawberry-breasted because of the freckles on her breast — in the enhanced and deepened color of the "bugle blue eggs" (I presume the image is derived from the deep blue wildflower of that name — bugle, or bugloss), in which the sharp u of "bugle" melting to the softer u of "blue" gives the reflection and the sisterhood of the deep blue heaven, the flower, and the egg, we have piercing truth-finding vision.