“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Appareled 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, from Recollections of Early Childhood.” Stanza 1.

William Wordsworth [1770-1850]

“Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” by John Bartlett.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Page 408.

To read the full poem: Poetry Foundation.