There Was a Time

There was a time when meadow, grove and stream,
The earth and every common sight,
To me did seam
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream;
It is not now as it hath been of yore;--
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

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