“Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

" Spring http://www.bartleby.com/122/9.html", stanza 1 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918) <br class="br">Context: Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—<br>When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;<br>Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush<br>Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring<br>The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

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