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Toms Garland Upon the Unemployed

Tom—garlanded with squat and surly

Tom; then Tom's fallowbootfellow piles

By him and rips out rockfire homeforth—sturdy Dick;

Tom Heart-at-ease,

Tom Navvy: he is all for his

Sure, 's bed now.

Low be it: lustily he his low lot

That ne'er need hunger,

Tom;

Tom seldom sick,

Seldomer heartsore; that treads through, prickproof,

Thousands of thorns, thoughts) swings though.

Little I reck ho! lacklevel in, if all had bread:

What!

Country is honour enough in all us—lordly head,

With heaven's lights high hung round, or,

That mammocks, mighty foot.

But no way sped,

Nor mind nor mainstrength; gold go

With, perilous,

O nó; nor yet plod safe shod sound;                  Undenizened, beyond

Of earth's glory, earth's ease, all; no one, nowhere,

In wide the world's weal; rare gold, bold steel, bare                In both; care, but share care—This, by Despair, bred Hangdog dull; by Rage,

Manwolf, worse; and their packs infest the age.

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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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