Does Everybody Know This?
/If perchance you do not know the wonderful Gerard Manley Hopkins poem “Inversnaid” (the name of a small rural village in Scotland, where he saw this brook that inspired him), check it out on Poets.org soon. Here is the last stanza of it:
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and wilderness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, the wildness and wet:
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet!
--by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet!