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1844–1889

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

NOT of all my eyes see, wandering on the world, Is anything a milk to the mind so, so sighs deep Poetry to it, as a tree whose boughs break in the sky. Say it is ashboughs: whether on a December day and furled

Fast ór they in clammyish lashtender combs creep Apart wide and new-nestle at heaven most high. They touch heaven, tabour on it; how their talons sweep The smouldering enormous winter welkin! May

Mells blue and snowwhite through them, a fringe and fray Of greenery: it is old earth's groping towards the steep Heaven whom she childs us by. They touch, they tabour on it, hover on it [; here, there hurled ],

With talons sweep The smouldering enormous winter welkin. [ Eye, But more cheer is when ] May Mells blue with snowwhite through their fringe and fray

Of greenery and old earth gropes for, grasps at steep Heaven with it whom she childs things by.

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