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65636Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins — "The sea took pity: it interposed with doom"Robert BridgesGerard Manley Hopkins
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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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