March 23rd

1872

March 23— ... Saw a lad burning bundles of dry honeysuckle: the flame (though it is no longer freshly in my mind) was brown and gold, brighter and glossier than glass or silk or water and ran reeling up to the right in one long handkerchief and curling like a cartwhip...

Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Gerard Manley Hopkins, (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets.)