| Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918. |
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| 20. Duns Scotus’s Oxford |
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| TOWERY city and branchy between towers; | |
| Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; | |
| The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did | |
| Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers; | |
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| Thou hast a base and brickish skirt there, sours | 5 |
| That neighbour-nature thy grey beauty is grounded | |
| Best in; graceless growth, thou hast confounded | |
| Rural rural keeping—folk, flocks, and flowers. | |
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| Yet ah! this air I gather and I release | |
| He lived on; these weeds and waters, these walls are what | 10 |
| He haunted who of all men most sways my spirits to peace; | |
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| Of realty the rarest-veinèd unraveller; a not | |
| Rivalled insight, be rival Italy or Greece; | |
| Who fired France for Mary without spot. | |
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