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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 lightning to hear him sing.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), British poet, Jesuit priest. Spring, st. 1 (written 1877), published in Poems (1918).

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