Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.

By Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

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	5
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.