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SUMMA by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

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First Line: THE BEST IDEAL IS THE TRUE
Last Line: ARE NEVER KNOWN FOR FAIR.

THE best ideal is the true
And other truth is none.
All glory be ascribed to
The holy Three in One.
Man is most low, God is most high.
As sure as heaven it is
There must be something to supply
All insufficiencies.
For souls that might have blessed the time
And breathed delightful breath
In sordidness of care and crime
The city tires to death.
And faces fit for leisure gaze
And daylight and sweet air,
Missing prosperity and praise,
Are never known for fair.



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