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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

I. Nature’s Influence

“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.