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which excerpt from gerard manley hopkins "spring and fall" describes grief as a self-centered act?

A"It is the blight man was born for,/It is Margaret you mourn for."

B."Now no matter, child, the name:/Sorrow's springs are the same."

C"Ah! as the heart grows older/It will come to such sights colder..."
DNor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed/What heart heard of, ghost guessed..."

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The excerpt from Gerard Manley Hopkins "Spring and Fall" describes grief as a self centered act is "Ah! as the heart grows older/It will come to such sights colder." Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote this poem in 1880. It is about a little girl who must come to terms with her own mortality. 

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A. “It ís the blight man was born for,/It is Margaret you mourn for."

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