POEMS

REFERRING TO CHILDHOOD AND EARLY

YOUTH.

VOL. I.

B

I.

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.