'The child is father to the man.' <br />How can he be? The words are wild. <br />Suck any sense from that who can: <br />'The child is father to the man.' <br />No; what the poet did write ran, <br />'The man is father to the child.' <br />'The child is father to the man!' <br />How can he be? The words are wild.<br /><br />Gerard Manley Hopkins<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-child-is-father-to-the-man/
