| Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918. |
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| 53. ‘What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been’ |
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| WHAT being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been | |
| That hére pérsonal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?— | |
| A bush-browed, beetle-brówed bíllow is it? | |
| With a soúth-wésterly wínd blústering, with a tide rolls reels | |
| Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen | 5 |
Únderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.
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| Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling | |
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