Tuesday, 10 May 2011

May 10th

1866 - Oxfordshire

May 10. Ascension Day. Walked alone to Fyfield or rather to a step beyond the great elm (perhaps the greatyest I have ever seen) and made a sketch at the turning point....
...Children with white rods beating bounds of St. Michael's parish.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

(Gerard Manley Hopkins, (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets.)

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