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WHAT BEING IN RANK-OLD NATURE by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

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First Line: WHAT BEING IN RANK-OLD NATURE SHOULD EARLIER HAVE THAT BREATH BEEN
Last Line: OR A JAUNTING VAUNTING VAULTING ASSAULTING TRUMPET TELLING
WHAT being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been
That here personal tells off these heart-song powerful peals? --
A bush-browed, beetle-browed billow is it?
With a south-westerly wind blustering, with a tide rolls reels
Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen
underneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.
. . . . . . . .
Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling



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