Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First PublishedHopkins, Gerard Manley
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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
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Jesus Christ sacrificed
On the cross. . . .
Moulded, he, in maiden's womb,
Lived and died and from the tomb
Rose in power and is our
Judge that comes to deal our doom.
74. _To him who_. Text is an underlined version among working
drafts in H.--line 6, _freed_ = got rid of, banished. This sense
of the word is obsolete; it occurs twice in Shakespeare,
cp. Cymb. III. vi. 79, 'He wrings at some distress . . .
would I could free 't!'.
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