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

55. ‘The Sea took pity: it interposed with doom’

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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