Summary of the Poem:

Stanza 1:  In childhood, every object of nature seemed to the child as an emblem of heavenly glory. The child can remember everything like the freshness of a dream. In mature days the grown –up man can’t find the celestial light which he enjoyed in his childhood. In this time of maturity, wherever he looks either in day time or night, he cannot see the divine presence like his childhood days.

Stanza -2 :The heavenly bodies move on their tracts as before.  The rainbow appears and goes, the rose gives loveliness and the moon beams in a cloudless sky. The water in a clear night offers its beauty. The sunrise indicates a fresh life. But the poet is sure about the absence of glory from every object of nature that the poet sees anywhere.

Stanza -3 : The birds sing joyous song. The young lamb jumps with the sound coming from musical instrument.  Only the poet feels grief within his mind. He feels relief after expressing his anguish timely. The waterfall falls from the steeply land creating sound. The poet thinks he should not mar the  jolly mood of nature for his own grief.  He still listens to the echoes from the mountains. All the earth, land and sea are lost in jollity. The beasts pass their holidays in the spirit of May. The poet addresses the child of joy to surround him and let him listen its call within his inner mind.

Stanza -4 : The poet has heard the call of the child who is a blessed creature. The heaven smiles in the enjoyment of the child. The poet’s heart feels oneness with the child’s happiness and bliss. The earth is embellishing her with sweet may morning and the children are picking fresh flowers from every side off far-off mountains. The sun shines warmly and the infant leaps on his mother’s lap. The poet feels this in his mind with joy. Among many things,  a tree remembering his childhood days indicates him that something has withered away from his vision. Even the flowers retell him the same tale. The poet is in bewilderment where that heavenly gleam, glory and dream has gone.

Stanza- 5: Our life on earth is a sleep from heaven and we slowly forget our pre-natal memories. Our life’s star soul that has its dwelling in other place rises with us and it comes with us from distance. After coming in this world, we don’t totally forget our heavenly glimpses .We still sustain the grandeur of our divine memories. We are surrounded by heavenly remembrances in our infancy. As the child grows up, the brunt course of life engulf us gradually, but the growing boy still keeps the brilliance and sees it in his joy.  In youth age, he gradually comes away from his original abode in heaven but still he is the nature’s priest .He is attends by heavenly memories yet now. But in manhood, he totally forgets all of his previous remembrances and is thrown into the hectic like that fades his pre-natal survival.

Stanza -6:  As soon a human child is born, the earth comes to take as her own. She endows all of her blesses upon the new-born babe. The earth becomes the foster mother and nurse to the child. The caring attitude of the earth helps the child to forget the heavenly glories and the royal habitat of heaven from where the child comes. 

                Stanza -7:  If we see a little child of short size, we can see that he is always accompanied by his mother’s kisses that trouble him. The makes a plan of his toys that indicate his future plan of activities. He forms some ideas of human life in his future. His newly learnt arts prepare him subconsciously about the merriment and lamentations that he has to face in life. All these types of ideas are quickly finished and the little child assumes another role and pass through some whimsical stages. Like the elder persons, he is thrown into the hectic activities of daily life as if all his life is like a limitless imitation.

                Stanza – 8:  A child’s external appearance may give us a fake idea about his soul’s magnitude. A child is a best philosopher that has the idea of his heavenly inheritance. He is a revelation among the elders who are passive and mute to sacred light. The tinge of eternal depth of conscious always hovers round him. He is the mighty spiritualist and seer visionary of truth. We try to unfold the truth but all our attempts end in smoke. The child is always engirdled with the sense of immortality like a servant to his lord. He has the presence of divinity that we not easily ignore. The little child still has the remembrances of his prior heaven–borne independence. Why the child proceeds to grow up despite these benedictions. The growing up means the oblivion of his earlier glories. Amidst of all these blessings, the child turns to maturity thus falling himself in the deep pit of harsh realities.

                 Stanza – 9:      During old age, it is joyous to remember or feel the fleeting sense of immortality within us during our childhood. The memory of childhood days full of divine glory create eternal blessing upon the aged human beings.  I praise not for the recollections of heavenly glory in childhood. The doubts and suspicions regarding outer natural world come and vanish from our memory. The persistent doubts regarding the reality of our sensations in childhood and blank misgivings indicate the vague doubts regarding the reality of the natural world. The faint memories during mature age appear as the light of our observation. It gives us the power to understand the eternal truth regarding the mystery of the world. With the sacred knowledge, the aged people feel the child within him playing on the shore and hear the strong flow of immortality rolling round him constantly. 

                Stanza – 10:    The birds and young lambs might enjoy the happy Maydays. The poet will join with their merriment. The brilliance of childhood days have gone away but it will never return. The poet will not feel sorry for this. He will get strength from his newly knowledge of original sympathy for his fellow humanity. The sufferings of human beings bring soothing and philosophic knowledge that lead him to embrace death peacefully.

                 Stanza – 11 :    The natural objects are the part of our lives and love. The influence of nature is all-pervading. The normal course of nature indicates the transience of human beings on earth. Human heart is the abode of joys and sorrows. The meanest flower teaches us about weal of woe of life that appears to us during our journey from heaven to earth and earth to heaven again.

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