"Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils."
"The child is father of the man."
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Source: 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
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