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" ...Where we, even where we mean
To mend her we end her,
When we hew or delve:
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.
Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve
Strokes of havoc únselve
The sweet especial scene,
Rural scene, a rural scene,
Sweet especial rural scene. "

Gerard Manley Hopkins , The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins


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Gerard Manley Hopkins quote : ...Where we, even where we mean<br /> To mend her we end her,<br /> When we hew or delve:<br />After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.<br /> Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve<br /> Strokes of havoc únselve<br /> The sweet especial scene,<br /> Rural scene, a rural scene,<br /> Sweet especial rural scene.