All Things Human

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

I

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;