The Sea Took Pity Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Sea Took Pity

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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.’
. . . . . . . .

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Friday, January 3, 2003
poem poems child sea winter Daughters
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Stratford, Essex
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