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For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Age: 45 †
Born: 1844
Born: June 28
Died: 1889
Died: July 8
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London
England
Hopkins
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Ten
Men
Places
Thousand
Eyes
Faces
Limbs
Eye
Features
Christ
Plays
Father
Lovely

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