Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins/What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been
That hére pérsonal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?—
A bush-browed, beetle-brówed bíllow is it?
With a soúth-wéterly wínd blútering, with a tide rolls reels
Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen
Únderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.

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Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling