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My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity on

My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,

Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.  I cast for comfort I can no more get By groping round my comfortless, than blind Eyes in their dark can day or thirst can find Thirst 's all-in-all in all a world of wet.

Soul, self; come, poor Jackself,

I do advise You, jaded, let be; call off thoughts awhile Elsewhere; leave comfort root-room; let joy size At God knows when to God knows what; whose smile 's not wrung, see you; unforeseen times rather - as skies Betweenpie mountains - lights a lovely mile.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the lea…

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