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Sorry to lower the tone but do you sell that beeswax polish?

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I'll give you some next time I make it

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I have a poor memory but I looked it up. I'm guessing you mean Prayer (1). I wrote a dissertation in my last few months at school on Herbert and Hopkins because I saw something similar in the directness of their dialogues with God. I was more or less an atheist but I responded to this process which The Prayer kind of sums up.

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That's the one. Brillaint perception for a kid. Some lines could be Hopkins:

The milky way, the bird of Paradise,

Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood,

The land of spices; something understood.

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Thanks. I always liked Herbert.

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My favourite. Do you know "Prayer"?

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