I have desired to go
      Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
    And a few lilies blow.

    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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Poet: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poem: Heaven--Haven: A Nun Takes The Veil
Volume: The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oxford University Press, 1970
Year: Published/Written in 1864

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