APPARELED IN CELESTIAL LIGHT

Celestial Light, Vail, Colorado

William Wordsworth's 'Splendor in the Grass' is the poem we hear in the 1961

movie by the same name.  Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty starred and Wood was

nominated for an Academy Award for her role as Beatty's girlfriend.

 

The poem is from Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early

Childhood, which begins with the majestic:

 

  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.

 

And who can forget Natalie Wood struggling to read it in

her English class, then hearing her recite it again, this time much wiser,

at the end of the movie?