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Poet's Fathers
POEM DEDICATED TO EXPECTANT FATHERS
(JEREMIAH CLARKE'S MINUET IS PLAYING)
THE CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN
BY GERARD MANLEY 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

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