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![Margaret are you grieving / Over goldengrove unleaving?](/-/media/images/plough/article/2020/spring/peters/hopkinsembed1.jpg?la=en)
![Leaves like the things of man, you / With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?](/-/media/images/plough/article/2020/spring/peters/hopkinsembed2.jpg?la=en)
![Ah! As the heart grows older / It will come to such sights colder / By and by, nor spare a sigh / Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;](/-/media/images/plough/article/2020/spring/peters/hopkinsembed3.jpg?la=en)
![And yet you will weep and know why. / Now no matter, child the name: / Sorrows springs are the same.](/-/media/images/plough/article/2020/spring/peters/hopkinsembed4.jpg?la=en)
![Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed / What heart heard of, ghost guessed:](/-/media/images/plough/article/2020/spring/peters/hopkinsembed5.jpg?la=en)
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JL Gerhardt
I love this poem--"unleaving" is such a powerful word (like so many of Hopkins' inventions). The image of the adult Margaret above the child Margaret, both weeping, is arresting. Thank you!