Poem A Day

The Sea Took Pity

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The sea took pity: it interposed with doom:

‘I have tall daughters dear that heed my hand:

Let Winter wed one, sow them in her womb,

And she shall child them on the New-world strand.’

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