My Heart Leaps Up

Poems, in Two Volumes, 1802

y heart leaps up when I beholdA 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 beBound each to each by natural piety.

From Poems, in Two Volumes (1802), via the English Wikisource transcription.

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