freshness quotes

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; Turn whereso'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

-William Wordsworth
c.1802^1803  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', stanza1 (published1807).