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 GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Sickness broke him. Impatient he cursed at first, but mended Being anointed and all, though a hcavenlier heart began bome Months earlier, since I had our sweet reprieve and ransom Tendcr'd to him. Ah well, God rest him all road ever he offended'

This seeing the bick endears them to us, us too it endears. My tongue had taught thee comfort, touch had quench'd

thy tears, Thy tears that touch'd my heart, child, Felix, poor Felix

Randal ;

How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous

years,

When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers, Didbt fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and

battering sandal'

��JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY

838 A Whtte Rose

THE red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love, O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.

But I send you a cream-white robebud With a flush on its petal tips,

For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips.

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