The Thursday Poem

Potted Flowers with Books IV
Eric Barjot

My Heart Leaps Up

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So it was when my life began;

So it is 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 to each by natural piety.

William Wordsworth

(7th April 1770 - 23rd April 1850)