• 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 the 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...