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

71. ‘Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail’

STRIKE, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail

May’s beauty massacre and wispèd wild clouds grow

Out on the giant air; tell Summer No,

Bid joy back, have at the harvest, keep Hope pale.