Song Cycle by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891-1975)

?. I have desired to go

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by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) , "Heaven-Haven", from Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse, published 1895

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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.

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