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Margaret, are you Grieving? Gerard Manley Hopkins

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To a Young Child

              1Margaret, are you grieving
              2Over Goldengrove unleaving?
              3Leaves, like the things of man, you
              4With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
              5Ah! as the heart grows older
              6It will come to such sights colder
              7By & by, nor spare a sigh
              8Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
              9And yet you wíll weep & know why.
            10Now no matter, child, the name:
            11Sorrow’s springs are the same.
            12Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
            13What héart héard of, ghóst guéssed:
            14It is the blight man was born for,
            15It is Margaret you mourn for.


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