innocent and carefree, that does not make her any less godly – in fact, it makes her even more God-like. Perhaps, observing his daughter, Wordsworth realised that adults can learn more from children than they can ever teach them.
Wordsworth concludes the poem by saying that Caroline occupies the warmest place in heaven, because she is so special: ‘Thou liest in Abraham’s bosom all the year’. Her very existence is a holy prayer in the most sacred place – ‘And worshipp’st at the Temple’s inner shrine’ – and God is always with her, and perhaps all children, without any special effort on her part: ‘God being with thee when we know it not.’
