Gerard Manley Hopkins

Love Preparing to Fly

He play’d his wings as tho’ for flight;
They webb’d the sky with glassy light.
His body sway’d upon tiptoes,
Like a wind—perplexed rose;
In eddies of the wind he went
At last up the blue element.
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