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The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

"My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" l. 1 (1807). Wordsworth also used the last three lines as the epigraph for his poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807). See Milton 43
The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.