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Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice"
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Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice"

Poem of the week: Gerard Manley Hopkins translates Horace | Gerard Manley  Hopkins | The Guardian

G. K. Chesterton wrote: “Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.” Perhaps Hopkins was anticipating that sentiment in today’s poem. Happy reading.

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