What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Inversnaid; Exact wording and attribution checked. Poems (1918), edited by Robert Bridges; Wikisource transcription linked to original edition scan. Complete final stanza.
- Inversnaid
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