Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.

By William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

My heart leaps up when I behold


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,	5
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.