Ribblesdale

Gerard Manley Hopkins * Track #26 On Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published

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Album Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

1918

Ribblesdale by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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35 Ribblesdale

EARTH, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavès throng
And louchèd low grass, heaven that dost appeal
To, with no tongue to plead, no heart to feel;
That canst but only be, but dost that long—

Thou canst but be, but that thou well dost; strong
Thy plea with him who dealt, nay does now deal,
Thy lovely dale down thus and thus bids reel
Thy river, and o'er gives all to rack or wrong.

And what is Earth's eye, tongue, or heart else, where
Else, but in dear and dogged man?—Ah, the heir
To his own selfbent so bound, so tied to his turn,
To thriftless reave both our rich round world bare
And none reck of world after, this bids wear
Earth brows of such care, care and dear concern.

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