Poem by William Wordsworth

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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.

1. Anticipation, October 1803
2. Written in Very Early Youth
3. Memory
4. To the Memory of Raisley Calvert
5. The Vaudois

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