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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Now first published: Edited with notes by Robert Bridges

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[Repeat that, repeat]

Repeat that, repeat,
Cuckoo, bird, and open ear wells, heart-springs, delightfully sweet,
With a ballad, with a ballad, a rebound
Off trundled timber and scoops of the hillside ground, hollow hollow hollow ground:
The whole landscape flushes on a sudden at a sound.