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Home  »  62. ‘Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit’

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

62. ‘Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit’

DENIS, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit

Caps occasion with an intellectual fit.

Yet Arthur is a Bowman: his three-heeled timber ’ll hit

The bald and bóld blínking gold when áll ’s dóne

Right rooting in the bare butt’s wincing navel in the sight of the sun.
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