“World-mothering air, air wild,
Wound with thee, in thee isled,
Fold home, fast fold thy child.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
"The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe", lines 124-126
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“Wild air, world-mothering air,
Nestling me everywhere,
That each eyelash or hair
Girdles; goes home betwixt
The fleeciest, frailest-fixed
Snowflake; that’s fairly mixed
With, riddles, and is rife
In every least thing’s life.”
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