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THE SEA TOOK PITY by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE SEA TOOK PITY: IT INTERPOSED WITH DOOM
Last Line: AND SHE SHALL CHILD THEM ON THE NEW-WORLD STRAND.'

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.'





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