“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight,To me did seemAppareled 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.”
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 1.
William Wordsworth [1770-1850]
From Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Page 408.
June 10, 2023
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“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight,To me did seemAppareled 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.”
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 1.
William Wordsworth [1770-1850]
From Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Page 408.