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NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Age: 45 †
Born: 1844
Born: June 28
Died: 1889
Died: July 8
Poet
Writer
London
England
Hopkins
Something
Comfort
Carrion
Men
Choose
Slack
Lasts
Strands
Last
Feast
Hope
Weary
Wish
Thee
May
Despair
Come
Cry

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