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Summer ends now now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?
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
Beauty
Lovely
Wilder
Ends
Clouds
Drift
Around
Sky
Skies
Waiver
Ever
Across
Silk
Willful
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Meal
Molded
Behavior
September
Melted
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Meals
Sack
Walks
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Barbarous
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