Though Nothing Can Bring Back the Hour

Though nothing can bring back the hour

Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be…

― William Wordsworth

excerpt from Ode 536
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood