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No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief
by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Wreck of the Deutschland (1876), Poems (fourth edition, 1967) edited by W.H. Gardner and N.H. Mackenzie, Journals and Papers of G.M. Hopkins (2 volumes, 1959) edited by H. House and G. Storey.


No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief
by Gerard Manley Hopkins

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?

My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief-
woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing-
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No ling-
ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief'.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
My who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.


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