53. 'What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been'. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. 1918. Poems

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918.

53. ‘What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been’


WHAT being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been
That hére pérsonal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?—
A bush-browed, beetle-brówed bíllow is it?
With a soúth-wésterly wínd blústering, with a tide rolls reels
Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen	5
Únderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green. . . . . . . . .
Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling

See Notes.