<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397267" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To R.B.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong <br>Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame, <br>Breathes once and, quenchèd faster than it came, <br>Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song. <br>Nine months she then, nay years, nine years she long<br>Within her wears, bears, cares and moulds the same: <br>The widow of an insight lost she lives, with aim <br>Now known and hand at work now never wrong. <br>Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this; <br>I want the one rapture of an inspiration.<br>O then if in my lagging lines you miss <br>The roll, the rise, the carol, the creation, <br>My winter world, that scarcely breathes that bliss <br>Now, yields you, with some sighs, our explanation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gerard+Manley+Hopkins">Gerard Manley Hopkins</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397267" data-title="To R.B. de Gerard Manley Hopkins" data-description="The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame, Breathes once and, quenchèd faster than it came, Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song. Nine months she then, nay years, nine years she ..."></div> </div> </div>

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