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Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Age: 45 †
Born: 1844
Born: June 28
Died: 1889
Died: July 8
Poet
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London
England
Hopkins
East
Dimness
Crimson
Easter

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