My Heart Leaps Up

"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. 

IMAGE: George Inness, The Rainbow (c. 1879)