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I spent the summer of 2019 in San Francisco caring for my grandmother who was sick with lung cancer.

Heaven-Haven by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1864)

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.

© HANNAH LA FOLLETTE RYAN, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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