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" Nothing is so beautiful as Spring-
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.

(From "Spring") "

Gerard Manley Hopkins , Poems and Prose


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Gerard Manley Hopkins quote : Nothing is so beautiful as Spring-<br />When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;<br />Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush<br />Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring<br />The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;<br />The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush<br />The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush<br />With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.<br /><br />(From