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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

‘My Heart Leaps up’

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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;

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.