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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• by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), no title, appears in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, first published 1918 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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