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Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

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
Searching
Taste
Nature
Self

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