I HAVE desired to go

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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).  Poems.  1918.
2. Heaven—Haven
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A nun takes the veil

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    I HAVE desired to go
      Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
    And a few lilies blow.
    And I have asked to be         5
      Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
    And out of the swing of the sea.
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