'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...

'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 wheresoever i may,

By night or day

The things which have seen i now can see no more.'

The mood captured in this passage is one of