Scope and Contents Four Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. For a cappella SATB Choir. [Set to music by Bryan Beaumont Hays]. 1. God’s Grandeur -- 2. The Windhover -- 3. Easter Communion -- 4. Pied Beauty. Text by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Choral 1. God’s Grandeur: 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? ... 2. The Windhover: to Christ Our Lord: I caught this morning...