'My heart leaps up when I behold' My Heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; So was it when life began; So it is now I'm a man; So be it when I grow old, Or let me die! The child is father to the man And I would wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. I found this poem ticked in one of mum's books. poetry was something precious to her.