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Forgotten Ground Regained

Moonrise, June 19, 1876

Gerard Manley Hopkins
I woke in the midsummer not-to-call night in the white and the walk of the morning:The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe of a fingernail held to the candle,Or paring of paradisaical fruit, lovely in waning but lustrelessStepped from the stool, drew back from the barrow of dark Maenefa the mountain;A cusp yet clasped him, a fluke yet fanged him entangled him, not quit utterly.This was the prized, the desirable sight, unsought, presented so easily,Parted me leaf and leaf, divided me eyelid and eyelid of slumber.
Photograph by Adrian Michael
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