🔵 Felix Randal by Gerard Manley Hopkins - Summary Analysis - Felix Randal by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Felix Randal by Gerard Manley Hopkins - Summary Analysis - Felix Randal by Gerard Manley Hopkins
1809 - 1889
Felix Randal the farrier, O is he dead then? my duty all ended,
Who have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome
Pining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it, and some
Fatal four disorders, fleshed there, all contended?
Sickness broke him. Impatient, he cursed at first, but mended
Being anointed and all; though a heavenlier heart began some
Months earlier, since I had our sweet reprieve and ransom
Tendered to him. Ah well, God rest him all road ever he offended!
This seeing the sick endears them to us, us too it endears.
My tongue had taught thee comfort, touch had quenched thy tears,
Thy tears that touched my heart, child, Felix, poor Felix Randal;
How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years,
When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers,
Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal!
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I hope Felix Randal had a chance to receive his last rites. The sacrament of the dying according to Catholic tradition. It doesn't mean that Felix Randal was a vicious sinner. Just a regular human being getting ready to meet the lord with a clean slate. The last rites is one of the sacraments of Catholicism for everyone, including children. The anointing he received, was the anointing of the sick. Where chrimson oil placed on the sick person in hopes that he will get better or God might grant him strength to bear the illness.