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[‘The child is father to the man.’]
‘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.
| Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins | |