Versos English Gerard Manley Hopkins The Sea Took Pity

English poem

The Sea Took Pity

by (1844–1889)

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The sea took pity: it interposed with doom: ‘I have tall daughters dear that heed my hand: Let Winter wed one, sow them in her womb, And she shall child them on the New-world strand.’ . . . . . . . .