Thomas Hardy - To Outer Nature lyrics

Show thee as I thought thee When I early sought thee,   Omen-scouting,   All undoubting Love alone had wrought thee - Wrought thee for my pleasure, Planned thee as a measure   For expounding   And resounding Glad things that men treasure. O for but a moment Of that old endowment -   Light to gaily   See thy daily Irised embowment! But such re-adorning Time forbids with scorning -   Makes me see things   Cease to be things They were in my morning. Fad'st thou, glow-forsaken, Darkness-overtaken!   Thy first sweetness,   Radiance, meetness, None shall re-awaken. Why not sempiternal Thou and I? Our vernal   Brightness keeping,   Time outleaping; Pa**ed the hodiernal!