The Falls of Arklet, Inversnaid, on the West Highland Way, Scotland

The Falls of Arklet

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The Falls of Arklet are a series of waterfalls at Inversnaid, on the east shore of Loch Lomond.

Here, the West Highland Way rounds a small rock buttress and arrives at the first of two bridges that cross the Snaid Burn and which allow views of the celebrated waterfall, the Falls of Arklet, celebrated by Gerard Manley Hopkins in his renowned poem.

Inversnaid

This darksome burn, horseback brown,

His rollrock highroad roaring down,

In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam

Flutes and low to the lake falls home.

A windpuff-bonnet of fáwn-fróth

Turns and twindles over the broth

Of a pool so pitchblack, féll-frówning,

It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.

Degged with dew, dappled with dew

Are 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 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 (1881)