[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]1
I [wished]2 to die and not see 
the inscapes of the world destroyed any more.

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• by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), no title, from one of his journals [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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• Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by Fer Bank ; composed by Jacques Bank.
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