Gerard Manley Hopkins

Duns Scotus's Oxford

TOWERY city and branchy between towers;  
Cuckoo—echoing, bell—swarmèd, lark—charmèd, rook—racked, river—rounded;  
The dapple—eared lily below thee; that country and town did  
Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers;  
 
Thou hast a base and brickish skirt there, sours
That neighbour—nature thy grey beauty is grounded  
Best in; graceless growth, thou hast confounded  
Rural rural keeping—folk, flocks, and flowers.  
 
Yet ah! this air I gather and I release  
He lived on; these weeds and waters, these walls are what
He haunted who of all men most sways my spirits to peace;  
 
Of realty the rarest—veinèd unraveller; a not  
Rivalled insight, be rival Italy or Greece;  
Who fired France for Mary without spot.

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