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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918.

53. ‘What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been’

WHAT being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been

That hére pérsonal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?—

A bush-browed, beetle-brówed bíllow is it?

With a soúth-wésterly wínd blústering, with a tide rolls reels

Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen

Únderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.
 . . . . . . . .

Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling