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" 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 , Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Complete Poems (Annotated)


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Gerard Manley Hopkins quote : What would the world be, once bereft <br />Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, <br />O let them be left, wildness and wet; <br />Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.