FastSaying
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Beautiful
Does
Ear
Eggs
Hear
Heavens
Him
Lightning
Like
Little
Long
Look
Lovely
Low
Lush
Nothing
Shoot
Sing
Spring
Strikes
Through
Timber
Weeds
Wheels
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Lightning
Strikes
Twice
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Admire
Effect
Make