Gerard Manley Hopkins quote: ...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since ...

...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender To touch, her being só slender,

~ Gerard Manley Hopkins ~

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...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country ...

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