"There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The Earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in cele…"

"The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose, The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are ba…"

"Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee; …"

"Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?"

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setti…"

"The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on hi…"

"As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation."

"Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity; Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage…"

"O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! The thought of…"

"Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! And let the young Lambs bound As to the tabor's sound! We in thought w…"