62. 'Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit'. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. 1918. Poems

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918.

62. ‘Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit’


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. . . . . . . . .	5

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