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<\/p>\nGM Hopkins was a priest at St Francis Xavier, Liverpool, from the end of 1879 through to 1881.<\/p>\n
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FELIX RANDAL the farrier, O he is dead then? my duty all ended,
\nWho have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome
\nPining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it and some
\nFatal four disorders, fleshed there, all contended?<\/p>\n
Sickness broke him. Impatient he cursed at first, but mended
\nBeing anointed and all; though a heavenlier heart began some
\nMonths earlier, since I had our sweet reprieve and ransom
\nTendered to him. Ah well, God rest him all road ever he offended!<\/p>\n
This seeing the sick endears them to us, us too it endears.
\nMy tongue had taught thee comfort, touch had quenched thy tears,
\nThy tears that touched my heart, child, Felix, poor Felix Randal;<\/p>\n
How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years,
\nWhen thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers,
\nDidst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal!<\/p>\n
‘Liverpool, April 28, 1880.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Margaret, are you grieving
\nOver Goldengrove unleaving?
\nLeaves like the things of man, you
\nWith your fresh thoughts care for, can you?<\/p>\n
(from ‘Spring and Fall’, Lydiate, near Liverpool, 1880)<\/p>\n
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GM Hopkins was a priest at St Francis Xavier, Liverpool, from the end of 1879 through to 1881. FELIX RANDAL the farrier, O he is dead then? my duty all ended, Who have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome Pining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it and some Fatal … <\/p>\n