The Child Is Father To The Man

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Title:     The Child Is Father To The Man
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins [More Titles by Hopkins]

'The child is father to the man.'
How can he be? The words are wild.
Suck any sense from that who can:
'The child is father to the man.'
No; what the poet did write ran,
'The man is father to the child.'
'The child is father to the man!'
How _can_ he be? The words are wild.

[The end]
Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem: Child Is Father To The Man

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