Nature then

(The coarser pleasures of my boyish days

And their glad animal movements all gone by)

To me was all in all. I cannot paint

What then I was. The sounding cataract

Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock,

The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,

The colours and their forms, were then to me

An appetite, a feeling and a love

That had no need of a remoter charm