Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail
May's beauty massacre and wispèd wild clouds grow
Out on the giant air; tell Summer No,
Bid joy back, have at the harvest, keep Hope pale.

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Note: portion(s) of this text are used in Richard Orton's Four Fragments.

Text Authorship:

• 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]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by David M. Epstein (1930 - 2002), "Strike, churl", published 1964 [ soprano, horn, and strings ], from Four Songs [sung text not yet checked]
• by Daniel Rogers Pinkham (1923 - 2006), "Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail", published 1970 [ tenor-baritone or baritone and viola ], from Eight Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins [sung text not yet checked]

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