World-mothering air, air wild,
Wound with thee, in thee isled,
Fold home, fast fold thy child.


The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe, lines 124-126 - Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

World-mothering air, air wild, Wound with thee, in thee isled, Fold home, fast fold thy child.

World-mothering air, air wild, Wound with thee, in thee isled, Fold home, fast fold thy child.

World-mothering air, air wild, Wound with thee, in thee isled, Fold home, fast fold thy child.

World-mothering air, air wild, Wound with thee, in thee isled, Fold home, fast fold thy child.