Spring
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1844 to 1889
Track 1
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With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Nothing is so beautiful as spring—
Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
In Eden garden. Have, get, before it cloy,
What is all this juice and all this joy?
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning
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