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I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and
This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,
Is immortal diamond.
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That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection, lines 22-24

 

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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