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The ashtree growing in the corner of the...

Language: English

[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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1 omitted in Bank's version. [needs verification]
2 Bank: "wish". [needs verification]

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Set in Dutch, a translation of Fer Bank [text unavailable]

Date added to the website: 2008-07-10.

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