 | Mark Hopkins - Congregational churches - 1847 - 528 pages
...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 could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety." It is such an one... | |
 | Education - 1847 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Congregational churches - 1847 - 528 pages
...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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 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 Henry Channing - Christian sociology - 1850 - 706 pages
...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 man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. For The... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1850 - 546 pages
...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... | |
 | Theology - 1850 - 550 pages
...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 Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...fineness of thought and tenderness of feeling: My heart leaps up when I behold . A rainbow in the sky ! So st Awrfignaiyt grace ; . t Nor know we any thing scTfai let it be when I grow old, Or let me die. The child is father of the man, And I would wish my days... | |
 | 1851 - 558 pages
...never thought would have done so ; I go now occasionally, and I find the tree unaltered : — " So was it when my life began : So is it now I am a man :" — the marks of age, perhaps, are more apparent, but it smiles upon me • Memoir, p. 197.... | |
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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... 
