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Moonrise

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

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I Awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, |in the white and the walk of the morning:     The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe | of a finger-nail held to the candle,     Or paring of paradisacal fruit, | lovely in waning but lustreless,     Stepped from the stool, drew back from the barrow, | of dark Maenefa the mountain;     A cusp still clasped him, a fluke yet fanged him, | en- tangled him, not quit utterly.     This was the prized, the desirable sight, | unsought, pre- sented so easily,     Parted me leaf and leaf, divided me, | eyelid and eyelid of slumber.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) was an English Jesuit poet who invented "sprung rhythm," a new metrical system. His poems—including "The Windhover," "Pied Beauty," and "God's Grandeur"—were published posthumously and are now celebrated for their ecstatic language and innovative prosody.

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