The Child is father of the Man

My heart Leaps Up 

My Heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So be 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 by natural piety.




- william Wordsworth -