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

66. ‘Repeat that, repeat’

REPEAT that, repeat,

Cuckoo, bird, and open ear wells, heart-springs, delightfully sweet,

With a ballad, with a ballad, a rebound

Off trundled timber and scoops of the hillside ground, hollow hollow hollow ground:

The whole landscape flushes on a sudden at a sound.