The world is too much with us; late and soon,
 Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; --
 Little we see in Nature that is ours;
 We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
 The winds that will be howling at all hours,
 And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
 For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I'd rather be
 A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
 So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
 Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
 Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.