Even LDS apologists are confused about LGBT church policy

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Re: Even LDS apologists are confused about LGBT church policy

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I offer Dr. Shades a thank you for making us think about this matter. Even to review the problem. What is poetry with out some sense of rhythm and all?
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
I am a little unsure how to scan this rather famous poem. It rhymes but that last, wings, sounds quite strange.
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