Heaven - Haven
I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lillies blow.
And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
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