For my money, I'll take Hopkins' Spring and Fall (much discussed in the Hopkins topic) over this one!
The theme of Hope's poem strikes me as, well, corny. If he was going to be mimetic, I would have found it more interesting if he adopted Blake's cadences but used them to explore a more up-to-date theme, something a contemporary reader could relate to.
Here we have a fantasy that a tree experiences grief, indeed an "agony at the root," and that human tears filter down to the weeping root (if only in a dream) and heal the tree. And then, those happy children singing their song of innocence at the end! There's enough sweetness here to give Pollyanna a toothache.
But read all that knowing that my own preference is for darker work. Otherwise I have to wear shades:
