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“The Sea Took Pity” by
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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(
28 Jul 1844
–
8 Jun 1889
)
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.”