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Heaven--Haven: A Nun Takes The Veil

 I have desired to go
 Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
 And a few lilies blow.
And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.

Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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