The Child is the Father of the Man
 
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 each to each by natural piety.

~William Wordsworth

This was one of two Wordsworth poems Andrew recited in TBAA’s “Stealing Hope.”