No.

It is a derivation from a like titled poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Child is Father to the Man," published 1 January 1923:

How can he be? The words are wild.

Suck any sense from that who can:

'The child is father to the man.'

No; what the poet did write ran,

'The man is father to the child.'

'The child is father to the man!'

How can he be? The words are wild.

It is a misquoting of a line from the William Wordsworth poem, "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold," written 26 March 1802:

A rainbow in the sky;

So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a man;

So be it when I shall grow old,

Or let me die!

The Child is father of the Man ;

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.