Love Preparing to Fly

Portrait of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844–1889

He play'd his wings as tho' for flight; They webb'd the sky with glassy light. His body sway'd upon tiptoes, Like a wind-perplexed rose; In eddies of the wind he went At last up the blue element.

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