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All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Age: 45 †
Born: 1844
Born: June 28
Died: 1889
Died: July 8
Poet
Writer
London
England
Hopkins
Giving
Touch
Things
Flow
Love
Therefore
Charged
Knew
Drops
Fire
Sparks
Tell
Ring
Give
Yield
Take
Rings

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