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The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.

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
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Shook
World
Grandeur
Crushed
Flame
Ooze
Flames
Foil
Oil
Foils
Shining
Gathers
Greatness
Charged

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