Sentence:  <WSD>Thus</WSD> Burns 's `` My love is like a red , red rose '' and Hopkins ' `` The thunder-purple sea beach , plumed purple of thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content , hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result