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.

'Inversnaid' (1881) by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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https://hopkinspoetry.com/poem/inversnaid/