English poem
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
Composed March 26, 1802.--Published 1807
[Written at Town-end, Grasmere.--I.F.]
One of the "Poems referring to the Period of Childhood." In 1807 it was No. 4 of the series called "Moods of my own Mind."--Ed.
My heart leaps up when I behold 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; [A] And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
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