“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was…”

“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.”

— William Wordsworth

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Title: Wikiquote: William Wordsworth
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The Rainbow ("My Heart Leaps Up") (wr. 1802; pub. 1807); the last three lines form the first lines of the long Ode: Intimations of Immortality begun the next day.

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Wordsworth, William. (n.d.). Wikiquote: William Wordsworth. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth

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