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Saturday, April 30, 2022

Heart Heard

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:40 am

"Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:"

— Two lines from a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem
as quoted by Caleb Murdock at . . .

https://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=5356 .

From that same URL —

"And, Caleb, yes, 'sprung rhythm' has made it into dictionaries,
though even there, the association is with Hopkins."

For guess-ghosts —

"Spring is sprung, the grass is riz,
I wonder where the flowers is."

And for an able muse —

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