(A poem by William Wordsworth)
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 wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
William Wordsworth was England’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850. He was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, pioneered the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads.