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02 June 2008


"For how to the heart's cheering
the down-dugged ground-hugged grey
Hovers off, the jay-blue heavens appearing
Of pied and peeled May!
Blue-beating and hoary-glow height; or night,
still higher,
With belled fire and the moth-soft Milky Way,
What by your measure is the heaven of desire,
The treasure never eyesight got, nor was ever guessed
what for the hearing?"

(Gerard Manly Hopkins, from "The Wreck of the Deutschland")

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