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The Sea Took Pity by Gerard Manley Hopkins Lyrics

Genre: misc | Year: 2013

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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.'
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