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Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit
From Poems (1918)
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DENIS, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit
Caps occasion with an intellectual fit.
Yet Arthur is a Bowman: his three-heeled timber'll hit
The bald and bóld blínking gold when áll's dóne
Right rooting in the bare butt's wincing navel in the sight
of the sun.
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Unfinished: a fragment.
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/60/.
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/60/.
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