2.10.5: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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    Spring and Fall

    to a young child_

    MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving
    Over Goldengrove unleaving?
    Leáves, like the things of man, you
    With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
    Áh! ás the heart grows older
    It will come to such sights colder
    By and by, nor spare a sigh
    Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
    And yet you wíll weep and know why.
    Now no matter, child, the name:
    Sórrow's spríngs áre the same.
    Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
    What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
    It is the blight man was born for,
    It is Margaret you mourn for.

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