Gerard Manley Hopkins — Cheery Beggar

61 Cheery Beggar BEYOND Mágdalen and by the Bridge, on a place called       there the Plain,    In Summer, in a burst of summertime    Following falls and falls of rain, When the air was sweet-and-sour of the flown fineflower of Those goldnails and their gaylinks that hang along a lime;     . . . . . . . .    The motion of that man's heart is fine    Whom want could not make píne, píne That struggling should not sear him, a gift should cheer       him Like that poor pocket of pence, poor pence of mine.    . . . . . . . .


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