...language of the poet is that of the unsophisticated heart all the world over. ' 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 let it be when I grow old, Or let me die. The child is father of the man, And I would wish my days...

...the last. My heart leaps up when I behold The rainbow in the sky ! So was it when I was a boy ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! While true old age is that honourable and happy state of soul which intellectual and emotional activities...

...evolved in the lines with which the poet meets his reader on his first page : " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my...old, Or let me die ! The Child is father of the Man ; And I could wish my days to bo Bound each to each by natural piety." It is one of the sorrows of...

...the heart that leaps not up with it. and joins not in its fervent prayer. " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky ! So was it when my...I am a man, So be it when I shall grow old, Or let roe die ! The child is father of the man, And I could wish my days, to be Bound each to each by natural...

...gleaming from the west Fall on the watery cloud. So, too, Wordsworth says — Jly heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my...it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, &c. Of the miseries attendant upon acting on imaginations, as if they were realities, life abounds...

...gentle poet had, who sang in a measure which will be always sweet and new : " My heart leaps np when I behold A rainbow in the sky ; So was it when my life began — So is it now I am a man — So let it be when I grow old, Or let me die—;" Then let it be remembered, that " The child is father...

...the last. My heart leaps np when I behold The rainbow in the sky ! So was it when I was a boy ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! While true old age is that honourable and happy state of soul which intellectual and emotional activities...

...Wordsworth has condensed a volume into a few well-known but immortal lines :— " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my lift began; So ii it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die I The MM u father...

...unwillingness to loose the hold on fair things of sense, which is apt to slacken with our growing years — " So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die !" And here is a verse which has deservedly become a part of our language — " The child is father...

...unwillingness to loose the hold on fair things of sense, which is apt to slacken with our growing years — " So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die !" And here is a verse which has deservedly become a part of our language — " The child is father...