| The Child Is Father To the Man | |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918) | |
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“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! 
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