Cheery Beggar

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Cheery Beggar
by Gerard Manley Hopkins

BEYOND Mágdalen and by the Bridge, on a place called there the Plain,
    In Summer, in a burst of summertime
    Following falls and falls of rain,
When the air was sweet-and-sour of the flown fineflower of
Those goldnails and their gaylinks that hang along a lime;
   . . . . . . . .
    The motion of that man’s heart is fine
    Whom want could not make píne, píne
That struggling should not sear him, a gift should cheer him
Like that poor pocket of pence, poor pence of mine.
   . . . . . . . .

PD-icon.svg This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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