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What Being in Rank-Old Nature

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Victorian · Short · 8 linessea

What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been That hйre pйrsonal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?— A bush-browed, beetle-brуwed bнllow is it? With a soъth-wйsterly wнnd blъstering, with a tide rolls reels Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen Ъnderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green. . . . . . . . . Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling

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Public domain. Source: PoetryDB. Reproduced verbatim; see theanthology for the full collection.

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