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“Love Preparing to Fly” by
Gerard Manley Hopkins
🏴
(
28 Jul 1844
–
8 Jun 1889
)
He play’d his wings as tho’ for flight;
They webb’d the sky with glassy light.
His body sway’d upon tiptoes,
Like a wind-perplexed rose;
In eddies of the wind he went
At last up the blue element.