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Robert Bridges

Robert Seymour Bridges was Britain's poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is the author of many well-known hymns. It was through Bridges’ efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins achieved posthumous fame.

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“Weep not today: why should this sadness be?Learn in present fearsTo o'ermaster those tearsThat unhindered conquer thee.”
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“When Death to either shall come—I pray it be first to me.”
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