"My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold": Notes and Interpretations
		This poem refers to the human life cycle.  The eight stages of development from infancy to adulthood.  The line "The child is father of the man" refers to the fact that a man is first a child and therefore couldnot exist without the childhood state.  So, the child in some way concieves the man, and is consequently his father.  The poem also refers to the speaker wanting to return to the days when he was bound by natural piety.  The speaker means that  he wishes he could return to the time when he still had his childhood innocence and reverence for nature.  He wants that natural conection with nature that everyone is born with but loose as they grow older.
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