by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
The ashtree growing in the corner of the...
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The ashtree growing in the corner of the garden was felled. It was lopped first: I heard the sound and looking out and seeing it maimed there came at that moment a great pang and I wished to die and not see the inscapes of the world destroyed any more.
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