55. 'The Sea took pity: it interposed with doom'. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. 1918. Poems

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918.

55. ‘The Sea took pity: it interposed with doom’


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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