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Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Spring and Fall”
April 28, 2020

Margaret are you grieving / Over goldengrove unleaving?

Leaves like the things of man, you / With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?

Ah! As the heart grows older / It will come to such sights colder / By and by, nor spare a sigh / Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;

And yet you will weep and know why. / Now no matter, child the name: / Sorrows springs are the same.

Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed / What heart heard of, ghost guessed:

It is the blight man was born for,

It is Margaret you mourn for.

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