And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the de… - Gerard Manley Hopkins

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And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs — Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was a Jesuit priest and English poet whose posthumous, 20th-century fame established him among the finest Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially in regard to sprung rhythm) and his vibrant use of imagery established him as both an original and daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse.

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And for all this, nature is never spent; / There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.

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Alfred Tennyson Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Byron John Keats William Wordsworth

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