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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).  Poems.  1918.

55. ‘The Sea took pity: it interposed with doom’

THE SEA took pity: it interposed with doom: ‘I have tall daughters dear that heed my hand: Let Winter wed one, sow them in her womb, And she shall child them on the New-world strand.’    .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   See Notes.

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