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My Heart Leaps Up Quotes by William Wordsworth: Context & Meanings

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“The Child is father of the Man.”

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Adult character grows from earlier habits of perception, so childhood is presented as a formative source rather than a discarded stage.

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Poem “My Heart Leaps Up.”