My heart leaps up when I behold
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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 piety.
Note: Quoted by Ogden Nash in Song to be sung by the father of infant female children
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954)
, "So may it be!", 1921.
by Paul Moravec (1957-)
, "My heart leaps up", from Vita Brevis, no. 2.
by Ned Rorem (1923-)
, "The Rainbow", 1997, published 1999, from Evidence of Things Not Seen, no. 4.
Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):
Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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