| Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918. |
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| 61. Cheery Beggar |
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| BEYOND Mágdalen and by the Bridge, on a place called there the Plain, | |
| In Summer, in a burst of summertime | |
| Following falls and falls of rain, | |
| When the air was sweet-and-sour of the flown fineflower of | |
| Those goldnails and their gaylinks that hang along a lime; | 5 |
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The motion of that man’s heart is fine | |
| Whom want could not make píne, píne | |
| That struggling should not sear him, a gift should cheer him | |
Like that poor pocket of pence, poor pence of mine.
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