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I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.

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
Simple
Buried
Eye
Unknown
Away
Near
Nature
Everywhere
Hands
Hand
Thought
Called
People
Beauty
Eyes
Sadly

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