From [The Habit of Perfection][1] by Gerard Manley Hopkins: > Nostrils, your careless breath that spend > > Upon **the stir and keep of pride**, > > What relish shall the censers send > > Along the sanctuary side! What is *the stir and keep of pride* here? Stir = commotion? Keep = stronghold (metaphorically, the body)? And what they may mean combined in one sentence? I understood the bit with censers that send fumes along the wall of the refuge, but the first half of the stanza is misty. [1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Habit_of_Perfection