“Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

"The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: The Golden Echo, line 19
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

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English poet 1844–1889

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