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Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes: And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.
         

And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.


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