The best ideal is the true And other truth is none. All glory be ascribd to The holy Three in One.
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"The best ideal is the true..."
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Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins
"The best ideal is the true..." by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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"Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, fra"
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"On ear and ear two noises too old to end Trench - right, the tide that ramps against the shore; With a flood or a fall, low lull-off or"
"Glory be to God for dappled things - For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim:"
"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky, And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet, S"
"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"
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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