by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)

Into the snows she sweeps
 (Sung text for setting by G. Kerry)
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Language: English 
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Into the snows she sweeps,
Hurling the haven behind,
The `Deutschland', on Sunday ; and so the sky keeps,
For the infinite air is unkind,
And the sea flint-flake, black-backed in the regular blow,
Sitting Eastnortheast, in cursed quarter, the wind ;
Wiry and white-fiery and whirlwind-swivellèd snow
Spins to the widow-making unchilding unfathering deeps.

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XXI
Loathed for a love men knew in them,
Banned by the land of their birth,
Rhine refused them. Thames would ruin them ;
Surf, snow, river and earth
Gnashed : but thou art above, thou Orion of light ;
Thy unchancelling poising palms were weighing the worth,
Thou martyr- master : in thy sight
Storm flakes were scroll- leaved flowers, lily showers -- sweet heaven was astrew in them.

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