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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Tom`s Garland: Upon the Unemployed
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Tom—garlanded with squat and surly steel
Tom; then Tom`s fallowbootfellow piles pick
By him and rips out rockfire homeforth—sturdy Dick;
Tom Heart-at-ease, Tom Navvy: he is all for his meal
Sure, `s bed now. Low be it: lustily he his low lot (feel
That ne`er need hunger, Tom; Tom seldom sick,
Seldomer heartsore; that treads through, prickproof, thick
Thousands of thorns, thoughts) swings though. Commonweal
Little I reck ho! lacklevel in, if all had bread:
What! Country is honour enough in all us—lordly head,
With heaven`s lights high hung round, or, mother-ground
That mammocks, mighty foot. But no way sped,
Nor mind nor mainstrength; gold go garlanded
With, perilous, O nó; nor yet plod safe shod sound;
                  Undenizened, beyond bound
Of earth`s glory, earth`s ease, all; no one, nowhere,
In wide the world`s weal; rare gold, bold steel, bare
                In both; care, but share care—
This, by Despair, bred Hangdog dull; by Rage,
Manwolf, worse; and their packs infest the age.
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