What Being In Rank-Old Nature Should Earlier Have That Breath Been

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Title:     What Being In Rank-Old Nature Should Earlier Have That Breath Been
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins [More Titles by Hopkins]

WHAT being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been
That here personal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?--
A bush-browed, beetle-browed billow is it?
With a south-westerly wind blustering, with a tide rolls reels
Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen
Underneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.
. . . . . . . .
Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling

[The end]
Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem: What Being In Rank-Old Nature Should Earlier Have That Breath Been

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