"My heart leaps up" by William Wordsworth (read by Benedict Cumberbatch)

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Simon Armitage, Margaret Atwood, #BenedictCumberbatch, Monty Don, Lisa Dwan, Inua Ellams, #StephenFry, #TomHollander, #TobyJones, #HelenMcCrory, #JonathanPryce and #VanessaRedgrave read for us work that will include Intimations of Immortality, Daffodils, lines composed both Upon Westminster Bridge and Above Tintern Abbey, The Prelude and We Are Seven. #Hayfestival2020"

"My heart leaps up" by William Wordsworth

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.

Source: Wordsworth 250: A Night in with the Wordsworths - 2020.05.22, Hay Festival. Hay Festival Digital is freely available all around the world. Please support it to secure the Festival for future generations, to imagine the world as it is and as it might be: https://www.hayfestival.com/donate
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