Cover art for Heaven-Haven: A Nun Takes the Veil by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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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.

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