 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...  The Ordeal - Page 311809Full view - About this book
 | Mark Hopkins - 1847 - 528 pages
...nature, and the instructor may adopt in spirit the words of the poet— •' 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 ; 80 be it when 1 shall grow old, Or let me die ! The Child is Father of the Man ; And 1 could... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1847 - 528 pages
...nature, and the instructor may adopt in spirit the words of the poet— 239 " My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I ani a Man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The Child is Father of the Man ; And I... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1847 - 532 pages
...of nature, and the instructor may adopt in spirit the words of the poet — " My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now 1 atn a Man ; So be it when 1 shall grow old, Or let me die ! The Child is Father of the Man ; And... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 378 pages
...SHEPHERD-BOYS ?4 ' [Altered from The Pet Lamb, PW, p. 30. SC] » PW, p. 2, line 7. " My heart leaps up when 1 behold A rainbow in the sky ; So was it when my life...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 " Along the river.s stony marge The... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1849 - 380 pages
...165 My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky — : So wa< it when my life began ; So la it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! WORDSWORTH. ' On (he Period of diOdkood.' when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, to his hand... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1849 - 290 pages
...bright in the sun ; the rainbow still lifts its head above the storm to the eye of infancy or age — So was it when my life began : So is it now I am a man, So shall it be till I grow old and die ; but Lord Byron does not understand this, for he does not understand... | |
 | 1850 - 608 pages
...simplicity, which betokens a spirit that knew nothing of age, he exclaims : — " 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." This childlike temper kept him always in sympathy with the... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...thought and tendernefs of feeling : — My heart leaps up when I behold A rain-bow in the Iky ! 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 wifh my days... | |
 | William Henry Channing - 1850 - 706 pages
...rest I abide. Then bear thou in patience thy woe !" FRESHNESS OF THE HEART. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky ; So was it when my life began, So : - it now I am a man , So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child ie father of the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...patines to that world which lay beyond his ha; mountain solitude. Lines. My heart leaps up when I beb. ity ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit...Adown the gulf of time ! I saw the last of human moul ! The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.... | |
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