Birds build - but not I build no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
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O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.Gerard Hopkins
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Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end
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O then if in my lagging lines you miss The roll, the rise, the carol, the creation.
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Just for lack Of answer the eagerer a-wanting Jessy or Jack There God to aggrandize, God to glorify.
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That night, that year Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God) my God.
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