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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Hopkins was the eldest of nine children born to a prosperous and cultivated Victorian family. He attended Oxford, where, under the influence of John Henry Newman, he converted from Anglicanism to Roman

At the Wedding March

by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89)

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God with honour hang your head,

Groom, and grace you, bride, your bed

With lissome scions, sweet scions,°

Out of hallowed bodies bred.

Each be other's comfort kind:

Deep, deeper than divined,

Divine charity, dear charity,

Fast you ever, fast bind.

Then let the March tread our ears:

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