Inversnaid — Cold Library

This darksome burn, horseback brown,His rollrock highroad roaring down,In coop and in comb the fleece of his foamFlutes and low to the lake falls home.

A windpuff-bonnet of fáwn-fróthTurns and twindles over the brothOf a pool so pitchblack, féll-frówning,It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.

Degged with dew, dappled with dewAre the groins of the braes that the brook treads through,Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.

What would the world be, once bereftOf wet and of wildness? Let them be left,O let them be left, wildness and wet;Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

This darksome burn, horseback brown,这条幽暗的溪流，马背般的褐色，

His rollrock highroad roaring down,沿着它滚石的大路轰鸣而下，

In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam在凹处和浪脊上，泡沫如羊毛，

Flutes and low to the lake falls home.吹着笛子般低吟，向湖中落下，回了家。

A windpuff-bonnet of fáwn-fróth一顶风吹起的浅褐色泡沫的帽子

Turns and twindles over the broth在一潭汤水之上旋转、摇曳，

Of a pool so pitchblack, féll-frówning,那潭水黑如沥青，阴沉地皱着眉，

It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.一圈又一圈，把绝望卷进去淹没。

Degged with dew, dappled with dew沾着露水，缀着点点露珠，

Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through,溪水踏过的山坡的褶皱，

Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,坚韧的石南丛，一片片蕨叶，

And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.还有那挂满浆果、俯身在溪上的花楸。

What would the world be, once bereft这世界会成什么样，一旦失去

Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,湿润与荒野？让它们留着吧，

O let them be left, wildness and wet;哦，让它们留着吧，荒野与湿润；

Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.愿野草与荒野长存。

Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2

Written in 1881 after a visit to Inversnaid, on Loch Lomond. A brown Highland stream rushes down into the loch, and the poem ends with a plea that wild and wet places be left alone. Its dialect words, “degged” for sprinkled and “braes” for hillsides, are part of its music.

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Written in 1881 and first published in 1918; the author died in 1889 and the editor in 1930.

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Wikisourceretrieved 11 October 2026

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Chinese: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0

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S-004024coldlibrary.com/s/004024

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Title: Inversnaid因弗斯奈德
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
Date: written 1881; published 1918
Form: Verse
Language: English
Edition: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918), edited by Robert Bridges, from the scan-backed transcription on Wikisource; the editor’s notes omitted
This copy: No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.

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Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2

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God’s Grandeur

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