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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Poet: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poem: The Sea Took Pity

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