“Elected Silence, sing to me
And beat upon my whorlèd ear,
Pipe me to pastures still and be
The music that I care to hear.”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

"The Habit of Perfection", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

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English poet 1844–1889

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