The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
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Look at the stars look, look up at the skies O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there.Gerard Manley Hopkins
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
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The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
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